Power to the people or regulatory ratcheting? Explaining the success (or failure) of attempts to site commercial US nuclear power plants: 1954-1996

Berndt, Eric; Aldrich, Daniel P.

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“…How these various stakeholders and the public view and frame power generation issues and their contexts provides a very direct test of our model's performance. Recent scholars of the politics of power generation facilities, in both the United States and abroad, directly discuss the role of plant costs, efficiency, safety, and environmental impacts as core elements in the framing of stakeholder and citizen support and oppositional attitudes and policy preferences (see, e.g., Berndt & Aldrich, 2016;Joseph, 2009;Mix & Waldo, 2015;Moore & Hackett, 2016;Powell, 2015). A body of literature indicates that individual characteristics, energy source perceptions, and citizens' risk attitudes are also correlated with public energy policy preferences (Ansolabehere & Konisky, 2009;Greenberg, 2009).…”

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A Micro Model of Problem Definition and Policy Choice: Issue Image, Issue Association, and Policy Support of Power Plants

Liu¹,

Robinson²,

Vedlitz³

2017

Policy Studies Journal

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Past research on problem definition and public policy primarily focuses on the macro‐system level. In this study, we propose a micro model of problem definition and policy choice at the individual level. We argue that while individual citizens' problem definitions and policy preferences are rooted in and filtered through their predisposition characteristics (such as socioeconomic status, political orientation, and informational base), their policy choices also strongly depend on how they define public issues, particularly how they perceive the image of an issue at hand and how they associate the issue with other public issues. Our empirical analyses, based on data from a national public survey on energy and power plant issues, support the key propositions derived from our theoretical model. Key contributions to and implications for policy studies are discussed in conclusion.

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Section: Data Collection and Variable Measurementmentioning

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A Micro Model of Problem Definition and Policy Choice: Issue Image, Issue Association, and Policy Support of Power Plants

Liu¹,

Robinson²,

Vedlitz³

2017

Policy Studies Journal

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Living With the Invisible Risks in the U.S. Urban Areas: Potential Nuclear Power-Induced Disasters, Urban Emergency Management Challenges, and Environmental Justice Issues

Kyne¹

2016

Risk, Hazards &Amp; Crisis in Public Policy

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This article attempts to understand potential risks of nuclear power emergencies associated with the U.S. commercial nuclear power plants (NPPs), which could impact populations living within a 50‐mile radius around NPPs during a nuclear disaster. This article will first examine the demographic composition of the populations in communities that host NPPs in urban and non‐urban areas in 1990, 2000, and 2010. Second, the study will investigate the distributive justice of the potential risks, by looking into the difference in demographic characteristics of populations living in the host communities (a 50‐mile radius from the NPPs), as compared to those living in outlying areas, in urban and non‐urban settings. Further, this article will also investigate the distributive justice of the potential risks associated with NPPs by looking at the association between the distance from the NPPs and the percentage of specific racial and ethnic groups living within the 50‐mile radius areas. Finally, in addition to the abovementioned distributive justice, this article will identify other environmental justice issues the communities near NPPs, if there are additional issues to address.

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From Military to Early Civilian Applications

Nucci

Rosaria²

2019

Energiepolitik Und Klimaschutz. Energy Policy and Climate Protection

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The article presents a historical overview of the development path of nuclear technology, from its military application to its civilian start up (Atoms for Peace) and early commercialisation of nuclear power plants. The chief aim is to demonstrate and analyse the commercial exploitation of nuclear energy and the beginnings of the nuclear industry by means of the link with the military research and development and production and its success based on tight industry-government integration. We describe the gradual growth of national nuclear frameworks and of the industry as a result of a combination of exogenous and endogenous factors originating with the military spill-over effects. These factors evolved during the subsequent phases of the technology development following the transfer of technological know-how from military establishments to civilian atomic agencies and the creation of a private industry.

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Power to the people or regulatory ratcheting? Explaining the success (or failure) of attempts to site commercial US nuclear power plants: 1954-1996

Cited by 4 publications

References 47 publications

A Micro Model of Problem Definition and Policy Choice: Issue Image, Issue Association, and Policy Support of Power Plants

A Micro Model of Problem Definition and Policy Choice: Issue Image, Issue Association, and Policy Support of Power Plants

Living With the Invisible Risks in the U.S. Urban Areas: Potential Nuclear Power-Induced Disasters, Urban Emergency Management Challenges, and Environmental Justice Issues

From Military to Early Civilian Applications

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