Daniel Carpenter: belief

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…Which are the most and least captured federal agencies in the technical use of that term? Oh, good question. Hmmm. I don’t have a rank ordering for you, from which I can draw the top and the bottom. Knowing some people who’ve been involved in the space, and seeing also what’s gone on worldwide, I would say one agency that has been captured or plausibly captured would be the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. There’s a complicated story there. The story in France — where they also have nuclear regulation — is that so many of the folks who work at that agency come through the country’s formidable technical schools, and they’re trained in a certain way that leads them to be much more likely to see nuclear power as a good thing. For what it’s worth, I happen to be a believer in nuclear power as part of a bundle of non-carbon-based energy sources. That said, I think it’s very plausible that, due to professional training, things like that, nuclear regulation may be a plausible case of capture, both here and, again, in other countries. Who has captured it in the US?…

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