[HTML][HTML] Circular economy policies and their transformative outcomes: The transformative intent of Finland's strategic policy programme

D Lazarevic, H Salo, P Kautto - Journal of Cleaner Production, 2022 - Elsevier
This paper analyses how Finland's circular economy policy attends not only to the promotion
and acceleration of innovation, but also the reconfiguration of resource intensive systems …

[HTML][HTML] The quiet opposition: How the pro-economy lobby influences climate policy

J Vesa, A Gronow, T Ylä-Anttila - Global Environmental Change, 2020 - Elsevier
The lack of ambitious climate change policies in large anglophone countries, such as the
United States, has been explained by the strong media presence of denialist arguments …

[HTML][HTML] Renovation realities: Actors, institutional work and the struggle to transform Finnish energy policy

L Kainiemi, K Karhunmaa, S Eloneva - Energy Research & Social Science, 2020 - Elsevier
Transitions research argues that destabilizing current carbon-intensive regimes is necessary
for transforming energy systems. In this study, we analyze how both new and established …

The hyperopia of wealth: The cultural legitimation of economic inequalities by top earners

H Kuusela - Socio-Economic Review, 2022 - academic.oup.com
The article explores the attitudes and perceptions of those at the top of the income scale
toward economic inequalities. Through a qualitative case study, it presents how a group of …

Silence of the wealthy: How the wealthiest 0.1% avoid the media and resort to hidden strategies of advocacy

A Kantola, J Vesa - European Journal of Communication, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
As the wealthiest groups have emerged as increasingly significant in societies, this article
explores society's wealth elites from the vantage point of media and communication studies …

Policy influence and influencers online and off

A Kotkaniemi, T Ylä‐Anttila, THY Chen - Policy Studies Journal, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Social media is an important arena for policy contestation. Although online social media
debates can yield notable power over political processes offline, little research has …

Decorporatization and organized interests in public policymaking in Norway: A tide that lifts all ships or an ebb tide leaving only the few afloat?

D Arnesen - Scandinavian Political Studies, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Over the past decades, there has been evidence of a shift from corporatist representation to
pluralist policymaking in Norway and the neighboring Scandinavian countries. This article …

Lobbying the executives: differences in lobbying patterns between elected politicians, partisan advisors and public servants

CA Cooper, M Boucher - Frontiers in Political Science, 2024 - frontiersin.org
Research from parliamentary countries suggests that lobbyists tend to focus their attention
on public office holders within the executive government more than those within the …

A cultural approach to politicization of science: how the forestry coalition challenged the scientific consensus in the Finnish news media debate on increased logging

A Kukkonen, A Malkamäki - Society & Natural Resources, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Politicization of science is often described as the process of political actors overemphasizing
scientific uncertainty to cast doubt on a scientific consensus. We argue that in addition to …

An effective 'weapon'for the weak? Digital media and interest groups' media success

J Vesa, P Poutanen, R Sund… - … , Communication & Society, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
The equalization-normalization debate concerns whether the Internet equalizes politics by
empowering resource-poor organizations, or whether it further strengthens the position of …