MAKING ENERGY POLICY TOWARD A FRAMEWORK OF ANALYSIS

MAKING ENERGY POLICY: TOWARD A FRAMEWORK OF ANALYSIS Peter Z. Grossman Lorna A. Greening USAEE Meeting, Tulsa, OK – October 24, 2016

GOAL • To find a way of analyzing the policy process – specifically with respect to energy policy--worldwide • The process of energy policymaking Confronts varied constraints – physical, social, legal • Policy as response to shocks • Grossman 2015

ROLE OF THEORIES & MODELS OF THE POLICY PROCESS • Focus on 4 theories Advocacy Coalition Framework (ACF) • Punctuated Equilibrium • Multiple Streams • Social Construction • • Many others

WHY THEY PUT THIS PAPER IN THIS SESSION • Example: nuclear power policy • How/why did nuclear power policy change (or not) in Germany, France, Japan? • Precipitating events Oil crisis of 1973 • Nuclear plant disasters • Looking at commonalities, differences in how • Why did Germany react strongly to Chernobyl but France and Japan did not? • Why was the reaction in Germany stronger with respect to Fukushima than it was in Japan? •

WHAT NEXT? • Need to work on the framework to encompass more of the common issues in energy policy • Need more careful, full analytic examples • • Both of these toward… A book on policymaking around the world (in progress)

MANY THANKS COMMENTS. SUGGESTIONS WELCOME pgrossma@butler. edu Energy shocks, crises and the policy process: A review of theory and Application Vol. 77, 2015