A key challenge for sustainability transitions scholarship in the coming decade is to understand how existing political institutions (e.g. policies, laws, regulations, constitutions) can be remade support transitions. This requires not only explaining past changes, but also ‘thinking forward’ about types of struggles likely occur when institutional changes are deliberately pursued. Several area...

Since the early 1980s, when confidence in institutions was first measured in an Australian academic social survey, Australia and the world has faced many political, social and economic changes. From corporate scandals and company collapses, to unprecedented terrorist attacks, to major ongoing international conflicts, to changes in government and all manner of political machinations, to the glob...