| Summary: | The political context on the local level plays a major role for governments to implement climate and energy policy. Drawing on the advocacy coalition framework, this paper examines the roles of actors and coalitions around energy politics in the case of Jokkmokk. The study utilizes a qualitative method to identify actors, coalitions and their strategies. The studies results show two strong coalitions, the Environmental coalition and the Industrial coalition. The most common strategy utilized by both coalitions was affecting public opinion via information. There was evidence that the Industrial coalition was having the upper hand in the policy subsystem due to Jokkmokks municipal climate and energy strategy acknowledging the importance of further development of energy production. However, implementation of Jokkmokks climate and energy strategy might face harsh resistance from the actors in the Environmental coalition. These findings suggest that major policy change is not very likely to happen in the case of Jokkmokk.
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