The Politics of Nuclear Power
A Subgovernment in Transition
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4289873 |
|---|---|
| Authors | James R Temples (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1980 |
| Volume | 95 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 239-260 |
| Publication date | 1980-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Political Science Quarterly (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0032-3195 • E-ISSN: 1538-165X |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/2149366 |
| OpenAlex | W2313442998 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 13 |
Even before the accident at Three Mile Island, it was clear that various factors were already converging to produce significant changes in public policy toward the licensing of commercial nuclear power plants. It is the contention of this article that the federal government's role in the development and licensing of such plants from 1946 until the present may best be understood and explained in terms of a nuclear that has changed over time as the nature of nuclear energy policymaking has shifted from what Theodore Lowi has called distributive toward what he terms regulatory.' The importance of subgovernments in influencing public policymaking in the American political system has been increasingly recognized by numerous observers.2 Subgovernments are relatively closed and autonomous alliances of political actors operating in a particular specialized policy area and consist of three basic elements: an executive branch agency; the executive branch agency's clientele groups (the interest groups that benefit directly from the programs administered by the agency); and the specialized congressional authorizing and appropriations committees and subcommittees that oversee the agency's budget and programs. Even as some authors were demonstrating the usefulness of the subgovernment concept in explaining policymaking in various specific policy areas, others were exploring new ways of conceptualizing the policymaking process itself and
Economic system · Economics · Nuclear physics · Nuclear power · Physics · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Power (physics) · Quantum mechanics · Sociology · Transition (genetics) · Chemistry · Law · Nuclear and radioactivity studies · Policy Transfer and Learning · Risk Perception and Management
Focusing Events, Mobilization, and Agenda Setting
Engineering Uncertainty and Bureaucratic Crisis at the Atomic Energy Commission, 1964–1973
The social shaping of nuclear energy technology in South Africa
Policy mixes for incumbency
Comparing nuclear trajectories in Germany and the United Kingdom
A Low‐Level, High Stakes Dilemma
Collaboration by Deflection
Nuclear Power and the Challenge of High-Level Waste Disposal in the United States
Widespread Policy Disruption
Reconsidering Policy Design
Outcomes of Nuclear Technology Policy
The Origins of Nuclear Power
From Pressure Group to Social Movement
| Unique citing works | 13 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,3 |
| Citation span | 1982 - 2019 (38) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 11 |