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Nuclear Politics - Energy and the State in the United States, Sweden, and France (Hardcover)
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Nuclear Politics - Energy and the State in the United States, Sweden, and France (Hardcover)
Series: Princeton Legacy Library
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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 commercialization of light-water-reactor technology in
the early 1960s to the present, he explains the events that
occurred after 1973: France built even more reactors than it
needed, the United States canceled most reactor orders, and Sweden
completed planned nuclear plants but decided to phase out nuclear
energy by 2010. This work is based on one hundred interviews with
managers, policymakers, and activists in the three countries. In
addition to providing a unique theoretical perspective, it broadens
our understanding of nuclear policy by looking at three countries
in depth and over a long historical span. Originally published in
1990. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand
technology to again make available previously out-of-print books
from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press.
These editions preserve the original texts of these important books
while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions.
The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase
access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of
books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in
1905.
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