Board #6 - Cascading Failures, Course Reversals, and Closures: An Analysis of the Federal Republic of Germany’s Post-Disaster Nuclear Energy Policy and News Coverage of Nuclear Energy

• In Event: 71-308 - Poster Session: Politics of Health and Wellbeing

Brief Overview

This study analyzes the nuclear energy decisions of the Federal Republic of Germany in the wake of the Chernobyl and Fukushima nuclear disasters through the lenses of the Punctuated Equilibrium Theory and Advocacy Coalition Framework of policymaking.

Author

• Ian Kelly, College of Wooster