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Occupation During And After The War (China), Lukas K. Danner Jul 2018

Occupation During And After The War (China), Lukas K. Danner

Dr. Lukas K. Danner

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Triggers For Policy Change: The 3.11 Fukushima Meltdowns And Nuclear Policy Continuity, Daniel P. Aldrich, Summer Forester, Elisa Horhager Dec 2017

Triggers For Policy Change: The 3.11 Fukushima Meltdowns And Nuclear Policy Continuity, Daniel P. Aldrich, Summer Forester, Elisa Horhager

Daniel P Aldrich

The 3.11 compounded disaster in Tohoku, Japan served as catalyst for some nations, including Germany, Belgium, and Italy, to alter nuclear policies but had no impact on the approaches of a number of others such as Vietnam, China, and Russia. Our article investigates why, despite facing the same focusing event, private- and state-owned utilities in some countries altered their nuclear energy policies while others kept the status quo. We use a mixed-methods approach to understand this variation in energy policy outcomes. Our quantitative analysis of 84 countries based on a new, sui generis dataset shows that Green Party vote share …