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Chain Reaction Brian Balogh (University of Virginia)

Chain Reaction By Brian Balogh (University of Virginia)

Chain Reaction by Brian Balogh (University of Virginia)

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'This book is much more than a case study of nuclear power policy in the US (it) combines historical research with an expert understanding of the literature on bureaucracy, on the roles of scientists in the policy process, and on the policy economy of post-industrial policy-making.' Political Studies

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Chain Reaction: Expert Debate and Public Participation in American Commercial Nuclear Power 19451975 by Brian Balogh (University of Virginia)

Path-breaking research into the Atomic Energy Commission's internal memorandum files supports this text's explanation of how and why America came to depend so heavily on its experts after World War II and why their authority and political clout declined in the 1970s.

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'This book is much more than a case study of nuclear power policy in the US (it) combines historical research over a 30-year period (19451975), with an expert understanding of the literature on bureaucracy, on the roles of scientists and the citizenry in the policy process, and on the policy economy of post-industrial policy-making. All students of policy formation thus will find Balogh's book thought provoking. How refreshing it is to find a policy scholar who knows history and can write well.' Political Studies

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments; 1. Professionalisation and politics in twentieth-century; America: from fission to fusion; 2. The promise of the proministrative state: nuclear experts and national politics, 19451947; 3. Forging an iron triangle: the politics of verisimilitude; 4. Triangulating demand: the AEC's first decade of commercialisation; 5. The centrifugal push of expertise: reactor safety, 19471960; 6. The magnetic pull of professional disciplines, issue networks and local government; 7. Nuclear experts on top, not on tap: mainstreaming expertise, 19571970; 8. Nuclear experts everywhere: the challenge to nuclear power, 19601975; 9. Conclusion: harnessing political chain reactions; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

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NPB9780521372961
9780521372961
0521372968
Chain Reaction: Expert Debate and Public Participation in American Commercial Nuclear Power 19451975 by Brian Balogh (University of Virginia)
Brian Balogh (University of Virginia)
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Hardback
Cambridge University Press
1991-10-25
352
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