ABSTRACT This article examines the seven decades since the end of World War II and the evolution of Japan’s nuclear energy policy from the perspective of both domestic/international structures and coalition building processes. The objective is to identify the causal mechanism that has produced the rigidity of today’s Japanese nuclear energy policy. This study takes an analytically eclectic approach. Viewing the single puzzle of policy rigidity through two different lenses, political opportunity structures and advocacy coalition framework accounts for different facets of Japan’s nuclear energy policy. This approach can also connect otherwise contending frameworks together to reveal factors in the policy rigidity of nuclear energy.

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考虑日本核能政策的僵化

摘要 本文从国内/国际结构和联盟建设过程的角度审视了自二战结束以来的七个十年和日本核能政策的演变。目的是确定造成当今日本核能政策僵化的因果机制。本研究采用分析折衷的方法。从两个不同的角度来看政策僵化的单一难题，政治机会结构和倡导联盟框架解释了日本核能政策的不同方面。这种方法还可以将其他相互竞争的框架联系在一起，以揭示核能政策刚性的因素。