Chain Reaction - Expert Debate Public Participation in American Commercial Nuclear

Klappentext Brian Balogh traces a chain reaction by examining the case of commercial nuclear power. For those interested solely in their crucial policy area! the book provides a wealth of new information and insights. The author's extensive research is the first independently to probe into the highly classified internal memoranda of the Atomic Energy Commission. Zusammenfassung '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 Inhaltsverzeichnis 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, 1945-1947; 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, 1947-1960; 6. The magnetic pull of professional disciplines, issue networks and local government; 7. Nuclear experts on top, not on tap: mainstreaming expertise, 1957-1970; 8. Nuclear experts everywhere: the challenge to nuclear power, 1960-1975; 9. Conclusion: harnessing political chain reactions; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

Product details

• Authors: Brian Balogh, Brian (University of Virginia) Balogh, Balogh Brian, Balogh Brian
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 26.11.1993
• EAN: 9780521457361
• ISBN: 978-0-521-45736-1
• No. of pages: 356
• Series: Expert Debate and Public Parti
• Subjects: Guides > Sport > Martial arts, self-defence; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Technology > Heat, energy and power station engineering; USA, Postwar 20th century history, from c 1945 to c 2000, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Power Resources / Nuclear, HISTORY / United States / 20th Century, c 1960 to c 1970, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, United States of America, USA, c 1950 to c 1959, History of the Americas, c 1970 to c 1979, c 1960 to c 1969, Nuclear power & engineering, c 1970 to c 1980, C 1945 To C 1960, Nuclear power and engineering