Priorities in Nuclear Technology (Routledge Library Editions: Energy Resources) - Hardcover

Bupp, Irvin C.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0367230879 ISBN 13: 9780367230876

Publisher: Routledge, 2019

Synopsis

Originally published in 1988. This book considers why some public policies succeed and others do not. It looks at the entrepreneurial process that creates public policies and examines whether they prosper or falter because of their political consequences. The programs and personnel of the Atomic Energy Commission are the empirical foundation for these arguments. The data generated by that agency's annual budget-making cycles, collected over time and organised by program, are used as evidence to test some propositions about policy formation within the executive branch of government. The author's concern is with questions of where and how priorities are established in a complex institutional environment. To answer the more fundamental causal question of why some programs prosper while others wither or die, use is made of more historical analysis and comparison of the fortunes of several of AEC's efforts to develop applied nuclear technology.

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Irvin C. Bupp

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0367230879
• ISBN 13: 9780367230876
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 364