Dissecting Institutional Disruption: How Anti-Nuclear Energy Activists Interrupted the Atomic Energy Commission, and How it Matters

• In Event: Environmentalism and Political Institutions

Brief Overview

This paper argues that a nascent 1970s anti-nuclear energy movement in the United States disrupted the regulatory regime, leading to its overhaul. The concatenations from this action tell us much about movement outcome ramifications.

Author

• Daniel Richards, The New School