A WEB OF INTERESTS: STALEMATE ON THE DISPOSAL OF SPENT NUCLEAR FUEL

KATZ, JONATHAN L.

POLICY STUDIES JOURNAL, n.º 3/2001, pág. 456

1. Literature of institutions, interests, and SNFdisposal policy. a) Literature on environmental policy,nuclear politics, and SNF disposal. 2. Stalemate over SNFdisposal. a) What is policy stalemate?. b) The U.S. path tostalemate. 3. Explaining the stalemate. a) The nature of theproblem. b) Explaining the stalemate: the response of thepluralist american political system. c) Officialpolicymakers have few incentives to act. d) Interest groups:many, but no majority. e) The latent trade-off betweenenergy and environment. 4. Resolving the stalemate. 5.Conclusion.