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Priorities in Nuclear Technology : Program Prosperity and Decay in the United States Atomic Energy Commission, 1956-1971, Hardback Book

Priorities in Nuclear Technology : Program Prosperity and Decay in the United States Atomic Energy Commission, 1956-1971 Hardback

Part of the Routledge Library Editions: Energy Resources series

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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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