Dr. Danyel Reiche, Herrenhäuser Kirchweg 19, 30167 Hannover,

Tel.: 0511 - 70 00 877, Email: dreiche947@aol.com

CURRICULUM VITAE

JOB

10/2002-12/2002 RESEARCH at the EC Baltic Renewable Energy Centre (EC BREC) in Warsaw (Poland)

01/2002-07/2002 PROJECT DIRECTOR for the study „Success Conditions for Support Instruments of Renewable Energies in the Electricity Market“ (in German language). A study conducted by the Environmental Policy Research Unit and completed on behalf of the German Association for Wind Energy (BWE)

09/2001-12/2001 RESEARCH at the Center for Clean Technology and Environment Policy (CSTM) at the Dutch University of Twente

WS 2001/2002 - present CONTRACTED TEACHER at the Otto-Suhr-Institute for Political Science (OSI) at the Free University of Berlin

01/2001 - present SCHOLARSHIP student of the Deutsche Bundesstiftung Umwelt (German Federal Environment Foundation) at the Environment Policy Research Unit at the Free University of Berlin. Title of the “habilitation” thesis: “Capacities for promoting renewable energies in countries of the European Union – Germany, Poland and the Netherlands in comparison”

12/2000 – 01/2001 EDITING a special focus issue about “energy” of the magazine VORGÄNGE

07/2000 – 11/2000 CONTRACTED by the HANS-BÖCKLER-FOUNDATION for writing a publication about “New Energy and New Work”

06/2000- present CHAIRMAN of the scientific council of Friends of the Earth (BUND), section Lower Saxony

01/2000 – 6/2000 Working on a RESEARCH APPLICATION, funded by the Hans-Böckler-Foundation and the research fund of the president of the University of Hannover

WS 1999 - present CONTRACTED TEACHER at the Institute for Political Science at the University of Oldenburg and the University of Applied Sciences of Braunschweig (Fachhochschule)

SS 1998 - present CONTRACTED TEACHER at the Institute for Political Science at the University of Hannover

02/1997 - 11/1999 Scholarship student of the Hans-Böckler-Foundation. DISSERTATION at the Institute for Political Studies at the University of Hannover. Topic: „The policy cycle of the German debate around an ecological tax reform. Agenda-setting, restrictions and conditions for a successful environmental policy“ (Grade: SUMMA CUM LAUDE)

03.12.1997 Certificate and PRICE by the president of the University of Hannover for an excellent Diploma.

01/96 - 01/97 Enrolled at the University Of The Witwatersrand and the University Of Western Cape (Johannesburg, Cape Town/South Africa). Course of studies: POLITICAL STUDIES. Leaving certificate BACHELOR OF ARTS WITH HONOURS. At the same time working as a correspondent for some German newspapers such as Weser Kurier, die tageszeitung, Offenburger Tageblatt, Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung

WS 92/93 - WS 96/97 Enrolled at the University of Hannover. Course of studies: SOCIAL SCIENCES (Political Studies, Psychology, Sociology, Law). Final thesis on: “Environmental tax reform”. Degree: Diploma. Grade: very good.

PRACTICAL work during the term breaks at the newspaper Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung, in the press office of the government of Lower Saxony and in the press office of the Green party of Lower Saxony

09/91 - 11/92 CONSCIENTIOUS OBJECTOR. Alternative service, working with blind people

1985-1991 Kaiser-Wilhelms-Gymnasium, Hannover

UNIVERSITY ENTRANCE QUALIFICATION (Abitur)

PERSONAL DATES

Date of birth 16.3.1972

Marital status: single

sports enthusiast (active: badminton, running, squash, inline-skating,

passive: soccer), passionate biker, health food fan,

open minded

Abstract of my actual research project

The project researches presuppositions of success for renewable energies in the newly-liberalised European electricity market. Different types of regulation are compared with the green electricity policy in Germany, the Netherlands, and Poland. Existent other studies concerning renewable energies focus on their ecological necessity, economic advantages, and technical feasibility. However, there is still a lack of international comparative political science study about restrictions and utilisation of renewable energies. Analysing the wide spectrum of social factors, I want to discuss the space for political intervention. This work aims first of all the evaluating and developing strategies for the substitution of fossil energies through renewable energies and secondly at developing a theory of energy politics based on the results of the research project.

Abstract of my dissertation

Since the late 1970s a topic of discussion in Germany has been a proposed income tax reduction financed through an increase in energy consumption costs. This dissertation details and analyzes the policy cycle of the German debate around such an ecological tax reform.

Following an outline of the problem as well as various research perspectives, the usefulness of policy analysis as an organizational framework is discussed. Prior to detailing the contextual, socio-economic, socio-cultural, political administrative, scientific and technical factors affecting agenda-setting, the main actors within the ecological tax reform arena will be introduced. The various tax proposals formulated by relevant actors in response to the oncoming tax reform discussion will be systematized using a time-bound typology. Restrictions that have hampered the introduction of an ecological tax reform through most of the 1990s will be examined.

What follows is an actor-specific analysis of the policy formulation phase (the 1998 parliamentary election campaign). The political decision will be divided into two parts (negotiations in 1998 between SPD and Bündnis 90/the Greens regarding the likelihood of a coalition, as well as the emergence and passage of the bill in 1999) and differentiated by drawing on a phase-model, which distinguishes between a decision and a discussion arena. Moreover, the influence of different actors on the introduced tax bill will be analyzed.

Assuming the introduction of an ecological tax reform in Germany, the conditions for a successful environmental policy will be discussed by way of example. As a result, it can be stated that given a continuing high unemployment rate and the ongoing debate about the appropriate location, a successful environmental policy would need to promise a win-win situation (additional gains through an increased number of workplaces and an enhanced ability to compete) in order for it to become more acceptable. In addition, the presence of innovators would foster both ecological progressive forces throughout the political decision-making process as well as societal pressure reinforced through the rupturing of political networks. Even though many environmental policy studies argue the influence of governing coalitions between different parties on platform decisions as being rather limited, the introduction of the ecological tax reform suggests that the participation of ecological parties in government can further environmental efforts. The thesis concludes with a summary.