ICPSR Instructional Subset: FEA Survey 18--Surveys of Public Attitudes and Response to Federal Energy Policy, 1974-1976

1984 ◽  
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Keyword(s):  
Energy Policy ◽  
Public Attitudes

scholarly journals Policy beyond politics? Public opinion, party politics and the French pro-nuclear energy policy

2014 ◽  
Vol 35 (1) ◽  
pp. 137-170 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sylvain Brouard ◽  
Isabelle Guinaudeau
Keyword(s):  
Public Opinion ◽  
Interest Groups ◽  
Energy Policy ◽  
Nuclear Energy ◽  
Path Dependence ◽  
Public Attitudes ◽  
Original Data ◽  
Policy Choices ◽  
The Media ◽  
Nuclear Energy Policy

AbstractAt first sight, French nuclear energy policy offers a textbook example of how technical, constitutional and economic restrictions, powerful interest groups and path dependence constrain democratic responsiveness. This paper uses what might seem to be an unlikely case in order to question explanations of policy choices in terms of technocracy, path dependence and interest groups against the background of an under-estimated factor: party and coalition strategies. The original data collected on public attitudes towards nuclear energy and the attention dedicated to this issue in the media, as well as in the parliamentary and electoral arenas, show that the effect of public opinion is conditioned by party incentives to politicise the issue at stake. In other words, parties and coalition-making constraints act as a mediating variable between citizens’ preferences and policy choices. These findings point to the need to integrate this conditional variable into analyses of responsiveness and models of policymaking.

scholarly journals Public attitudes, co-production and polycentric governance in energy policy

Energy Policy ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 153 ◽  
pp. 112241
Author(s):  
Nadejda Komendantova ◽  
Sonata Neumueller ◽  
Elvis Nkoana
Keyword(s):  
Energy Policy ◽  
Public Attitudes ◽  
Polycentric Governance
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