1. Making energy policy: Toward a Framework of analysis
Peter Z. Grossman
Lorna A. Greening
USAEE Meeting, Tulsa, OK – October 24, 2016

2. 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

3. Role of theories & Models of the Policy process
Focus on 4 theories
Advocacy Coalition Framework (ACF)
Punctuated Equilibrium
Multiple Streams
Social Construction
Many others

6. 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?

7. 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)

8. Many thanks Comments. Suggestions welcome
Energy shocks, crises and the policy process: A review of theory and
Application
Vol. 77, 2015