Straight out of Cape Cod: The origin of community choice aggregation and its spread to other states

• DOI: 10.1016/j.erss.2021.102393
• Publication Date: 2021-12-01T10:45:53Z
• Authors: David Hsu
• Keywords: Restructuring

This policy history describes how community choice aggregation was created in Massachusetts by a small group of advocates and subsequently spread across the US. Twenty-one interviews with key participants, primary materials from government personal archives, newspaper articles were used to attribute corroborate these events. A new finding is that as part electric sector restructuring efforts 1997, but this barely perceived many stakeholders larger process, included legislators response who organized local governments through direct democracy strategies. Kingdon's multiple streams approach provides useful framework understand organizing led successful passage legislation Massachusetts. The other states occurred combined advocacy learning emulation. CCA has since been adopted more than 1800 represent 36 million people six states. article concludes discussing early outcomes, current status, some prospective implications aggregation.