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100			_aBaldwin, Elizabeth _97506
245			_aExploring how institutional arrangements shape stakeholder influence on policy decisions: a comparative analysis in the energy sector
260			_c2019
300			_ap.246-255.
520			_aIn 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.
650			_aEnergy P[olicy _97453
773			_aPublic Administration Review
906			_aPolicy making
942			_2ddc _cAR