Nuclear Politics in America Duffy Robert J. Assistant Professor of Political Science Rider University USA
The promise and peril of nuclear power have been a preoccupation of the modern age. Though the nuclear industry has witnessed periods of expansion and retrenchment, there are now more than one hundred…
Specifikacia Nuclear Politics in America Duffy Robert J. Assistant Professor of Political Science Rider University USA
The promise and peril of nuclear power have been a preoccupation of the modern age. Though the nuclear industry has witnessed periods of expansion and retrenchment, there are now more than one hundred nuclear reactors providing America with almost a quarter of its electrical power.Robert Duffy now examines the politics of nuclear power over the last fifty years, relating broad trends in American politics to changes in the regulation of the nuclear industry to show how federal policies in this area have been made, implemented, and altered. He weaves a discussion of institutional change in all three branches of government into a study of agenda-setting, regulatory reform, and subgovernment politics, demonstrating how these forces combined to create policy change in this important area of public policy.Duffy's work traces nuclear politics from the creation of a powerful