Politics and Nuclear Power: Energy Policy in Western Europe (Paperback)

With the dramatic changes OPEC precipitated in the structure of world energy markets during the 1970s, energy became a central concern to policymakers throughout the industrialized West. This book ex-amines the responses of public officials in three leading European nations-the Federal Republic of Germany, France, and the Netherlands-to the energy crisis. As the study shows, the proposed energy programs in the three countries shared remarkable similarities; yet the policy outcomes were very diff