Nuclear Power in Britain
A series of successful failures
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 13138376 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Keith Baker (0000-0003-4154-3987, SUNY Brockport, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 5 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 26-43 |
| Publication date | 2023-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Review of Public Policy (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2679-3873 • E-ISSN: 2706-6274 |
| Publisher | International Public Policy Association (PUBLISHER • FR) |
| DOI | 10.4000/irpp.3206 |
| OpenAlex | W4381929406 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 29 |
Britain’s efforts to promote nuclear power represent successful failures. A successful failure is a policy program that achieves some progress or delivers short-term success but ultimately fails to deliver upon its original objectives. Britain’s various nuclear power programs did deliver some limited success but often fell short of key objectives overall and incurred massive cost overruns. It is shown that government interventions often prevented outright failure, but these interventions were made necessary due to the unintended consequences of prior decisions. It is concluded that government creates the conditions that increase the risk of policy failure but through intervention, government can forestall outright failure to create a successful failure
Business · Computer security · Economic interventionism · Economics · Government (linguistics · Intervention (counseling · Key (lock · Nuclear power · Operations management · Political science · Politics · Power (physics · Psychological intervention · Public economics · Risk analysis (engineering · Unintended consequences · Computer Science · Engineering · Policy Transfer and Learning · Political and Economic history of UK and US · Psychology · Sustainability and Climate Change Governance
Institutional Theory in Political Science
Prospect Theory
The Blame Game
Designing for Policy Success
Bad Strategy and Bomber Dreams
Searching for civil society
Great planning disasters
Governance and Nuclear Power
Policy Success, Policy Failure and Grey Areas In-Between
A public policy approach to understanding the nature and causes of foreign policy failure
Revisiting the study of policy failures
Ideology, Learning, and Policy Diffusion
Understanding Governance
Successful Failure
Political Science and the Three New Institutionalisms
| Unique citing works | 2 |
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| Citations per year | 2 |
| Citation span | 2026 - 2026 (1) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |