01613nam a2200157 4500 510109 510109 190724b ||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d Baldwin, Elizabeth 7506 Exploring how institutional arrangements shape stakeholder influence on policy decisions: a comparative analysis in the energy sector 2019 p.246-255. In recent years, there has been an expansion of efforts to include stakeholders in administrative policy making. Despite significant potential to improve policy decisions, empirical evidence suggests that not all participatory processes provide meaningful opportunities for stakeholders to shape policy and may even give the most powerful stakeholder groups disproportionate influence over policy decisions. This article argues that the institutional arrangements for stakeholder engagement—the rules and norms that determine which stakeholders can participate and how—affect stakeholders’ influence on policy decisions. This article uses state energy efficiency policy making as a context in which to compare how different institutional arrangements shape the ways in which stakeholders engage in and influence the policy process across two states, Connecticut and Maryland. Findings highlight that institutional arrangements can be used to increase participation, mitigate undue influence of industrial stakeholders, and increase the influence of public interest stakeholder organizations. - Reproduced. Energy P[olicy 7453 Public Administration Review Policy making ddc AR 0 0 ddc 0 0 384054 IIPA IIPA 2019-07-24 79(2), Mar/Apr, 2019: p.246-255. AR120465 2019-07-24 AR