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Book SynopsisEnergy Capitolexplores the waning of regulatory politics surrounding large-scale energy systems in the United States at the turn of the millennium.
Throughout the twentieth century, large-scale energy systems in North America and Europe were highly regulated by a national political community whose decision-making authority relied on positions of bureaucratic and capitalist-led industry organization. After restructuring in energy markets such as natural gas and electricity during the 1980s, the culture of power surrounding political decision-making began to decline. Against this backdrop, Arthur Mason examines the struggle by oil companies and federal-state agencies to deliver natural gas from Alaska and Canada''s Mackenzie Valley to markets in mid-continental United States, highlighting regulatory collusion to advance their plans.Mason employs perspectives from anthropology, political science, sociology, and science and technology studies to analyse ethnographic data ga
