Analysing Socio-technical Mobility Regimes with STS

In contrast to the successes in renewables and the spreading of related technologies (including market integration und societal effects such like energy cooperatives) the emission reductions in the mobility sector fall short of expectations - even so phenomena like UBER or Car2Go show effects on the demand side. Why do these strongly connected sectors develop so differently and how must a framework in IR be designed to grasp this differences theoretically? Socio-technical regimes literally interlink the societal and the technological dimension and likewise enclose actors, structures and discourses. Especially in the mobility sector, business power and lobbying, strong societal norms like the connection of freedom and car driving as well as rapid technological change influence the way of policymaking and vice versa. This paper develops a framework that aims to encompass the horizontal and vertical broadness of regimes in the mobility sector. With Jacobson (2016) it focuses horizontally on a timely dimension and looks at the modes of co-production of technology and politics. With Jasanoff (2004) the framework focuses vertically on the production of social order. An integration of these two approaches identifies foci for attention and provides a set of (research) questions, useful for (comparative) case studies.