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Public Choice Theory Applied to National Energy Policy: The Case of France

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Public choice theory offers a conceptually important means of examining policy decisions and their social and economic consequences in the field of natural resources. Through a public choice analysis of France's ambitious program to nuclearize its electrical industry by the year 2000, I examine the origins, merits and deficiencies of French nuclear policy. Public choice theory's major assumptions – that a policy's costs and benefits are a function of resource abundance and level of development and that a resource's management is shaped by its character and availability – are largely valid. However, the need to reconcile competing social values and to distribute policy benefits fairly may be insufficiently accounted for by current public choice approaches, a fact exemplified by French experience with nuclear power.

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  • Feldman, David Lewis, 1986. "Public Choice Theory Applied to National Energy Policy: The Case of France," Journal of Public Policy, Cambridge University Press, vol. 6(2), pages 137-158, April.
    • Handle: RePEc:cup:jnlpup:v:6:y:1986:i:02:p:137-158_00
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    1. Sovacool, Benjamin K. & Valentine, Scott Victor, 2010. "The socio-political economy of nuclear energy in China and India," Energy, Elsevier, vol. 35(9), pages 3803-3813.

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