Energy and Resources 151

FALL 2002: Syllabus and Reading List

Professor Rochlin

Tu-Th 11-12:30, Room 2326 Tolman Hall

cc# 27730

There are three required paperback books

There will also be a reader containing the referenced articles in the syllabus:
However, the reader will not be available until later in the term
 

Syllabus

I 8/27-8/29 Introduction to the course and the material

Norman Vig and Michael Kraft, eds., Environmental Policies in the 1990s, Chapter 1 (This book is required)
David Howard Davis, Energy Politics, Introduction (This book is required)

The Public Policy Perspective

II 9/3-9/5 Energy Policy: Traditional (Fossil) Fuels: History and Politics

Davis, Chapters 2-5
A wonderful glossary of terms in political economy may be found at:
http://www.auburn.edu/~johnspm/gloss/
 
OIL Videos from the Moffitt UG Library
 

III 9/10-9/12 Environmental Policy and Policy-Making

Vig and Kraft, Chapters 4, 6 and 8.
Anthony Downs, "Up and Down with Ecology: The 'Issue-Attention' Cycle", The Public Interest, 28 (1972), 38-50.
http://www.anthonydowns.com/upanddown.htm
Lester, Chapters 1 and 2.

The Political Economy Perspective

IV 9/17-9/19 Introduction to Political Economy of Energy and the Environment

Martin Stanisland, What is Political Economy? (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1985), 1-34.
Franklin Tugwell, "Energy and Political Economy," Comparative Politics, 13, No. 1 (Oct. 1980), 103-118.
Rober Gilpin, "Three Ideologies of Political Economy," from International Political Economy: A Reader
David Orr, "U.S. Political Economy and the Political Economy of Participation, Journal of Politics, 41.

V 9/24-9/26 Does Politics+Economics = Political Economy ??

Vig and Kraft, Chapters 9, 12, 15, 16
Reprise on Davis Ch. 3 (Oil)

Organizations, Institutions and Politics

VI 10/1-10/3 Organizations and Their Politics I: Organizing the Government for the Environment
David Howard Davis, American Environmental Politics (Chicago: Nelson-Hall, 1998), pp. 1-54.
Vig and Kraft, Chapters 5, 6 and 7
Lester, Chapters 3, 7, 8 and 9.
 
 VII 10/8-10/10 Organizations and Politics II: the CAA and the EPA
Vig and Kraft, Chapters 8 and 10
Lester, Chapters 8,9 and 11.
Gary Bryner, Blue Skies, Green Politics (2nd ed.) pp. 96-134.
 
VIII Tuesday 10/15 Mid-Term Examination
Thurs. 10/17 -- one or more videos on the political economy of oil
 
IX 10/22-10/24 Organizations and Politics III: Organizing (?) for Energy
David Orr, "U.S. Energy Policy and the Political Economy of Participation," Journal of Politics, 41 (1979).
Charles O. Jones, "American Politics and the Organization of Energy Decision-Making," Annual Review of Energy, 4 (1979), 99-121.
Davis, Summary review of all chapters!
James R. Temples, "The Politics of Nuclear Power: A Subgovernment in Transition," Political Science Quarterly, 95, No. 2 (summer 1980), pp. 239-260.
Gene I. Rochlin, "Broken Plowshares: System Failure and the Nuclear Power Industry."
 

Regulation and Deregulation, Theory and Practice

X 10/29-31 Regulation: History, Theory and Practice

James Q. Wilson, "The Dead Hand of Regulation," The Public Interest, 25 (Fall 1971), pp. 54-78. (RR)
David Vogel, "The 'New' Social Regulation in Historical and Comparative Perspective," in T.K. McGraw, ed., Regulation in Perspective (Cambridge: Harvard U. Press, 1981), 155-186. (RR)
Richard A. Harris and Sidney M. Milkis, The Politics of Regulatory Change (New York: Oxford University Press, 1989), 3-21. (RR)
Sheila Jasanoff, "Procedural Changes in Regulatory Science," Technology in Society, 17, No. 3, 1995: 279-293. (RR)
Jaqueline Switzer with Gary Bryner, Environmental Politics, 2nd ed. (New York: St. Martin's, 1998), 235-256. (RR)

XI 11/5-11/7 Deregulation (and the Electric Utilities)


Prof. Rochlin will be away on 11/5 and his proposed guest could not make it. Instead, why don't you go to down to the Media desk in Moffitt and look at one of the oil videos!
Barcovich, B. R. and D. V. Hawk, "Charting a New Course in California," IEEE Spectrum, July 1996, 26-31 (RR)
Rochlin, Gene I., "Networks and the Subversion of Choice: An Institutionalist Manifesto." Journal of Urban Technology 8, no. 3 (2001): 65-96. (Handout!)
"Chopping Up America's Power," The Economist, 3 May 1997, 21-22. (RR)
"Intoxicated by Power," The Economist, 14 June 1997, 65-66. (RR)
 

Science and Experts


XII 11/12-14 Global Climate Change and International Negotiations for the Environment


Mitchell, Ronald, " Intentional Oil Pollution of the Oceans," in Peter M. Haas, Robert O. Keohane, and Marc A Levy, eds., Institutions for the Earth: Sources of Effective International Protection (Cambridge MA: MIT Press, 1993), pp. 183-248. (RR)
Litfin, Karen T. "Sovereignty in World Ecopolitics." Mershon International Studies Review, 41, Supp. 2 (1997): 167-204. (RR)
Richard D. Morgenstern, "Reducing Carbon Emissions and Limiting Costs." RFF discussion paper, February 2002.
(http://www.rff.org/climatechangemorgenstern.pdf) On Blackboard/CourseInfo also
Bodansky, Daniel, "U.S. Climate Policy After Kyoto: Elements for Success," Carnegie Endowment Policy Brief, 15 April 2002. (http://www.ceip.org/files/pdf/Policybrief15.pdf). On Blackboard/CourseInfo also!
 

XIII 11/19-21 Advisors, Experts, Intervenors, and Protest Movements

Michael Lipsky, "Protest as a Political Resource," American PoliticalScience Review, 62 (1968), 1144-1157. (RR)
Sheila Jasanoff, "The Dilemma of Environmental Democracy," Issues in Science and Technology, 13, No. 1 (Fall 1996), 63-70. (RR) (http://www.nap.edu/issues/13.1/jasano.htm)
Dunlap, Riley E., "Public Opinion and Environmental Policy," in Lester, 63-114.
Rushefsky, Mark E., "Elites and Environmental Policy," in Lester, 275-302.
Andrews on Risk-Analysis (recap), Chapter 10 of Vig and Kraft, pp. 210-231.
Ann C. Keller, "Scientists and Agenda Setting: Scientific Influence in Acid Rain and Global Warming Policy in the United States." Chapter 2 of her PhD dissertation (UC Berkeley, Political Science, May 2001). (RR)
Star, Susan Leigh, and James R. Griesemer. "Institutional Ecology, 'Translations' and Boundary Objects: Amateurs and Professionals in Berkeley's Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, 1907-1939." Social Studies of Science 19, no. 3 (1989): 387-420. (RR) (Optional reading .. not required, but useful background)

XIV 11/26 Sustainable Development, and Environmental Justice (THURS. 11/28 is THANKSGIVING)
Chapters 11, 12, and 17 of Vig and Kraft, plus readings TBA.

XV 12/3-12/5 Wrap up and leftovers.. Chapters 12 and 13 of Lester ..