New dimensions to energy policy

Book · Mon Jan 01 04:00:00 EST 1979

OSTI ID:6404995

Lawrence, R ^[1]

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1. ed.

This book was originally undertaken with two objectives in mind. A third objective was added, together with Part III, as a result of serendipity. The first objective was the standard one in policy studies literature - to illuminate various facets of a particular policy area to increase understanding in a way that leads to better policy. The second objective, also a standard one, was to publish a small sample of work being done in the new area of energy policy. The chapters in Parts I (7) and II (6) were selected to meet these objectives. The majority of the chapters in Parts I (7) and II (6) focus specifically on getting by various groups such as impacted communities, energy boomtowns, competitors for scarce water, electric utilities, the nuclear power industry, Indian tribes, the poor, and certain Western states. The other chapters in Parts I and II examine the getting phenomenon in broader contexts, such as the response of state governments to contending energy demands by various energy groups, the use of technology assessment as a tool in resolving differences over energy alternatives, and changing relationships between the public sector and the private sector in energy development. Part III, entitled Energy Policy: A Laboratory for Social Scientists, consists of 5 chapters and emerged quite by accident. It suggests that, beyond the opportunity to further test the getting explanation of politics, there are opportunities to test many other propositions regarding the operation of pressure groups, the workings of Congress, the innovation of the states in the Federal system, and the operation of public participation in planning.

• OSTI ID: 6404995
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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