title: Reconstructing the public in old and new governance: a Korean case of nuclear energy policy.
abstract: Korean nuclear energy regulatory policies started to change from earlier exclusively technocratic policies into open dialogues after several anti-nuclear protests in the 1990s. However, technocratic policies still coexist with the new regulatory orientation towards openness, participation and institutional accountability. This paper analyzes Korean nuclear regulatory policies since approximately 2005 as a blend of old and new governance. The aim of the paper is not to decide whether new nuclear governance is deliberative or not by completely reviewing Korean nuclear policies after the 2000s. Instead, it provides an empirical account of how seemingly more participatory processes in decision-making entail new problems while they work with and reproduce social assumptions of different groups of the public.
authors.affiliation: Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology, Republic of Korea.
authors.forename: Hyomin
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Kim
mesh_terms: D003256:Community Participation; D003657:Decision Making; D062406:Fukushima Nuclear Accident; D006801:Humans; D007564:Japan; D009678:Nuclear Energy / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D011057:Politics; D011640:Public Policy / Q000639:trends*; D056910:Republic of Korea
keywords: decision-making in science; nuclear energy; participation in science policy; public participation; risk governance