Public Choice Theory Applied to National Energy Policy

The Case of France

Bibliographic Data

ID7322862
AuthorsDavid L Feldman (0000-0003-2288-5017, Minnesota State University Moorhead, corresponding author)
Year1986
Volume6
Issue2
Pages137-158
Publication date1986-04-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Public Policy (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0143-814X • E-ISSN: 1469-7815
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s0143814x00006462
OpenAlexW2120693017
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited19

Public choice theory offers a conceptually important means of examining policy decisions and their social and economic consequences in the field of natural resources. Through a public choice analysis of France's ambitious program to nuclearize its electrical industry by the year 2000, I examine the origins, merits and deficiencies of French nuclear policy. Public choice theory's major assumptions – that a policy's costs and benefits are a function of resource abundance and level of development and that a resource's management is shaped by its character and availability – are largely valid. However, the need to reconcile competing social values and to distribute policy benefits fairly may be insufficiently accounted for by current public choice approaches, a fact exemplified by French experience with nuclear power

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