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State, Ecology and Independence: Policy Responses to the Energy Crisis in the United States

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 January 2009

Benny Temkin
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The energy crisis has, at least for the time being, been replaced in newspaper headlines and public attention by other, more fashionable, and seemingly more pressing preoccupations. In the United States, for example, the dilemmas posed by the shortages and spiralling price increases of the 1970s gave way to different policy problems and the Reagan Administration has all but ceased to consider the energy question important.

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British Journal of Political Science , Volume 13 , Issue 4 , October 1983 , pp. 441 - 462
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1983

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