Energy and Resources 151

FALL 1998: Syllabus and Reading List

Professor Rochlin

Tu-Th 9:30-11, Room 185, Barrows Hall

cc# 26215

***(revised 10/16/98)***

There are two required paperback books

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

Syllabus

I 8/25-8/27 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 9/1-9/3 Energy Policy: Traditional (Fossil) Fuels: History and Politics

Davis, Chapters 2-5

III 9/8-9/10 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.
(This is the first article in the required reader).
"Cool It: Survey of Energy and the Environment," The Economist, 31 Aug. 1991.

The Political Economy Perspective

IV 9/15-9/17 Introduction to Political Economy of Energy and the Environment

Martin Stanisland, What is Political Economy? (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1985), 1-34.
Ernest J. Wilson III, "World Politics and International Energy Markets", International Organization, 41, 1 (Winter 1987), 125-149.
Reprise on Davis Chapter 3 (Oil)

V 9/22-9/24 Does Politics+Economics = Political Economy ??

Vig and Kraft, Chapters 9, 15, 16
"Power to the People: Survey of Energy and the Environment," Economist , June 18, 1994.
Franklin Tugwell, "Energy and Political Economy," Comparative Politics, 13, No. 1 (Oct. 1980), 103-118.

VI 9/29-10/1 Organizations and Their Politics I: Organizing for the Environment (The CAA and EPA)

David Howard Davis, American Environmental Politics (Chicago: Nelson-Hall, 1998), pp. 1-54.
Gary Bryner, Blue Skies, Green Politics, second edition, (Washington, D.C.: CQ Press, 1995) pp. 96-134.
Vig and Kraft, Chapters 7 and 8. (reprise on 9)
Charles E. Davis and James P. Lester, "Federalism and Environmental Policy," in James P. Lester, ed., Environmental Politics and Policy: Theories and Evidence (Durham: Duke University Press, 1989), 57-86.

 VII 10/6-10/8 Organizations and Politics II: 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, Chapter 6.
James R. Temples, "The Politics of Nuclear Power: A Subgovernment in Transition," Political Science Quarterly, 95, No. 2 (summer 1980), pp. 239-260.
 
Tuesday 10/13 Mid-Term Examination

Insiders and Outsiders

Thursday 10/13-15 Insiders: Nuclear Power and the Search for Oil

Gene I. Rochlin, "Broken Plowshare: System Failure and the Nuclear Power Industry," from Jane Summerton, ed.,Changing Large Technical Systems (Boulder CO: Westview, 1994), 231-264.
Colin J. Campbell and Jean H. Laherrère, "The End of Cheap Oil," Scientific American, March 1998, 78-83.

IX . 10/20-22 Experts and Intervenors I

Vig and Kraft, Ch. 11 (Environmental Justice)
"In Their Back Yard," The Economist, 17 May 1997, p. 31.
Michael Lipsky, "Protest as a Political Resource," American PoliticalScience Review, 62 (1968), 1144-1157.
Sheila Jasanoff, "The Dilemma of Environmental Democracy," Issues in Science and Technology, 13, No. 1 (Fall 1996), 63-70.
Amory Lovins, "Energy Strategy: The Industry, Small Business, and Public Stakes" and A. David Rossin, "The Soft Energy Path: Where Does it Really Lead?", from L.C. Ruedisili and M.W. Firebaugh, eds., Perspectives on Energy, 3d ed. (New York: Oxford, 1982), pp. 542-562.

X .Prof. Rochlin will be away 10/27, and either a guest lecturer will be present or another oil video will be shown.

Thurs. 10/29 Experts, Intervenors, and Protest Movements

Ian Clark, "Expert Advice in the Controversy About the SST in the United States," Minerva, 12, No. 4 (Oct. 1974), pp. 416-433.
Allan Mazur, The Dynamics of Technical Controversy, (Washington, D.C.: Communications Press, 1981), Chapter 2

Regulation, Deregulation, Re-regulation (CAA, Electricity)

XI 11/3-11/5 Regulation: History, Theory, Practice

Vig and Kraft, Chapters 8 and 16 (reprise), Chapter 10.
James Q. Wilson, "The Dead Hand of Regulation," The Public Interest, 25 (Fall 1971), pp. 54-78.
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.
Richard A. Harris and Sidney M. Milkis, The Politics of Regulatory Change (New York: Oxford University Press, 1989), 3-21.
The Economist, editorial on the US and regulation (August 1997).

XII 11/10-11/12 Four Models of the Regulatory Process: (I) - Command and Control vs. Markets

Vig and Kraft Chapters 9 and 12
William T. Gormley, jr., "Alternative Models of the Regulatory Process: Public Utility Regulation in the United States." Western Political Quarterly, 35, No. 3 (Sept. 1982), 297-317.
John P. Dwyer, "A Free Market in Tradeable Emissions is Slow Growing," IGS Public Affairs Report, 33, No. 1, January 1992, p. 1.
Robert W. Hahn and Roger G. Noll, "Environmental Markets in the Year 2000," Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, 3, No. 4 (December 1990) , pp. 351-367.

XIII 11/17-11/19 Four Models of the Regulatory Process (II) - Mandates and Social Negotiation

Robert W. Hahn, "The Politics and Religion of Clean Air," Regulation, Winter 1990, 21-30.
Sheila Jasanoff, "Procedural Changes in Regulatory Science," Technology in Society, 17, No. 3, 1995: 279-293.
Gary Bryner, Blue Skies, Green Politics, second edition, Chapter 6, "Formulating and Implementing Clean Air Policy: An Assessment," (Washington, D.C.: CQ Press, 1995), pp. 236-264.
Jaqueline Vaughn Switzer with Gary Bryner, Environmental Politics, 2nd ed. (New York: St. Martin's, 1998), 235-256.

XIV 11/24 Deregulation of Electric Utilities

Barbara R. Barcovich and Dianne V. Hawk, "Charting a New Course in California," IEEE Spectrum, July 1996, 26-31
Albert T. Crane and Robin Roy, "Competition, Trading, and the Reliability of Electric Power Service," Annual Review of Energy and the Environment, 17 (1992), 161-186.
"Chopping Up America's Power," The Economist, 3 May 1997, 21-22.
"Intoxicated by Power," The Economist, 14 June 1997, 65-66.

11/26 THANKSGIVING

XV 12/1-12/3 REVIEW and SUMMARY (And What About Global Warming ?)

John Harte, "Can We Stop Global Warming?" USA Today, March 1997, 78-83.
"Reading the Patterns," The Economist, 15 April 1995, 65-67.
"Stay Cool" and "Warm Words," The Economist, 14 June 1997, 11; 89-90.
Vig and Kraft Chapter 17
Switzer and Bryner, Environmental Politics, Chap. 6 (115-140).
 

Final exam: Friday 12/11/98, 8-11 am. Room TBA

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