Politički proces odlučivanja u jugoslavenskog društvu (Idejni nacrt istraživanja: Energetska politika i nuklearna strategija)
The Political Process of Decision-Making in Yugoslav Society - Research Draft: Energy Policy and Nuclear Power

Summary/Abstract: The author displayed a research draft of the decision-making process about building nuclear plants (NP) in Yugoslavia, which should be accomplished during 1987 and 1988. Yugoslav energy policy are determined in their specifity opposite to energy policy in developed capitalistic countries (where it is constituted in the interaction of state and social participators) and in the countries of realistic socialism (where it represents only one part of the entire political planning process and state management). An exhibited hypothesis shows integral energy policy of the sixties disintegrated due to economical and political system changes so that in the eighties the energy crisis and the building projects of nuclear plants would stimulate efforts for its reintegration. The author holds that the problem of building NP, which is the object of numerous professional and political controversies in the world as well as in Yugoslavia today, is at the same time exceptionally appropriate for the study of political processes in the Yugoslav political system. The draft of the theoretical-methodological starting point of the research contains an analytical model of the Yugoslav political system, classification of interests which appear in Yugoslav energy politics, analysis of aspects which intertwine in the decision-making process about utilizing the nuclear technology and justification of the necessity that the research relies mostly on qualitative methods. The research has a triple goal: to make the structure of interests in Yugoslav energy politics transparent, to critically enlighten the institutional assumptions of the decision¬-making process in building NP and to designate the alternative energy developments options.

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