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Nuclear Politics : Energy and the State in the United States, Sweden, and France

Why did nuclear energy policies in France, Sweden, and the United States, very similar at the time of the oil crisis of 1973 and 1974, diverge so greatly in the following years? In answering this question, James Jasper challenges one of the most popular trends in political analysis: explanations rel...

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Autor principal: Jasper, James M.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2014.
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505 0 |a Cover; Contents; List of Figures and Tables; Preface; Abbreviations; Part 1: Explaining Nuclear Policies; 1. Introduction; 2. Partisan Cleavages and Policy Styles; Part 2: Creating Nuclear Systems: The Triumph of Technological Enthusiasm, 1960-1973; 3. The Triumph of Technological Enthusiasm in the United States; 4. Early Victory for Light Water in Sweden; 5. The Difficult Transition to Light Water in France; 6. Commercial Success in Three Countries; Part 3: To Build or Conserve: Dilemmas Arising from Public Opposition and the Oil Crisis, 1973-1976. 
505 0 |a 7. The Reassertion of the Economic Perspective in the United States8. Party Politics in Sweden; 9. Technological Enthusiasm at the Top in France; 10. Elite Discretion in Three Countries; Part 4: The Structures Tighten: Policy Divergence and the Loss of Flexibility, 1976-1989; 11. High Costs and Decentralization of Control in the United States; 12. Political Paralysis and Antinuclear ""Compromise"" in Sweden; 13. Political Repression and Low Costs in France; 14. Structures and Flexibility in Three Countries; Part 5: Conclusions; 15. What Have We Learned?; List of Informants; Bibliography. 
520 |a Why did nuclear energy policies in France, Sweden, and the United States, very similar at the time of the oil crisis of 1973 and 1974, diverge so greatly in the following years? In answering this question, James Jasper challenges one of the most popular trends in political analysis: explanations relying exclusively on political and economic structures to account for public policies. Jasper proposes a new cultural and state-centered approach--one heeding not only structural factors but cultural meanings, individual biographies, and elite discretion. Surveying the period from the successful c. 
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