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• ISBN 10: 019252206X
• ISBN 13: 9780192522061
• Author: Wolfgang C. Muller

This volume investigates nuclear energy policies in Western Europe over the entire post-war period, but with special attention to the two most recent decades. The comparative analytical perspective draws on the interplay between voters’ attitudes, challenging movements, party competition, and coalition formation. Spanning more than 60 years and 16 countries, the researchers examine the underlying causal processes leading to the observed varieties of Western European nuclear energy policies. Based on a mixed methods approach using both structured case studies as well as quantitative analyses, the study shows that the nature of party competition under given institutional contexts is a key-driver for, as a rule, tactically motivated governmental policy changes and stability, respectively. Part I introduces the practical and theoretical relevance of the topic. It outlines the reasoning of the major scientific contributions with regard to nuclear energy policies, and offers a theoretical alternative to the previous literatures that has been predominantly movements-oriented.

Table of contents:

1. Nuclear Energy in Western Europe: Revival or Rejection? An Introduction

2. Understanding Policy Reversals and Policy Stability

3. Comparative Policy Indicators on Nuclear Energy

4. The Conflict over Nuclear Energy: Public Opinion, Protest Movements, and Green Parties in Comparative Perspective

5. Austria: Rejecting Nuclear Energy—From Party Competition Accident to State Doctrine

6. Nuclear Politics in France: High-Profile Policy and Low-Salience Politics

7. Germany: Party System Change and Policy Reversals

8. Why Italian Nuclear Energy Policy Failed Twice

9. Nuclear Power and Politics in the Netherlands

10. The Will of the People? Swedish Nuclear Power Policy

11. Switzerland

12. Conclusion: Explaining Nuclear Policy Reversals

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