Public Attitudes About Land Use Policy and Their Impact on State Policy-Makers*

The Devil Shift: Perceptions and Misperceptions of Opponents

“…The second scalelabeled Growth and Localism -consists of nine items dealing with the value priorities in the first scale plus a number of perceived causal relationships concerning (a) the support of different governmental levels for environmental quality and (b) the effects of housing and highway construction on erosion. Respondents' linking of pro-growth with pro-local government replicates findings of other land use studies in Ohio and California (Coke and Brown 1976;Mazmanian and Sabatier 1980;. Both scales are highly reliable, with alphas of at least .87 and factor loadings of at least .60.…”

The Conflicting Discourses of Restoration

“…Q ± methodology has been developed as a systematic method for discovering and ana ± lyzing the logic of discourses while utilizing only small numbers of respondents (Stephenson 1953 ;Brown 1980). Q ± methodology is used to characterize participants in a wide array of con icts and decisions (Hunter and Brisbin 1990), to describe the ''real world'' of debate about democracy among ordinary citizens (Dryzek & Bereji ± kian 1993), to analyze issues in land ± use decisions (Coke & Brown 1977), to examine perceptions of the US Constitution (Bass 1979(Bass , 1980, to foster ethnographic studies (McKeown & Thomas 1988), and to assess environmental attitudes of elites (Greenberger et al 1982). It has been shown to be useful methodology for those interested in studying the values held by individuals because, as described later, Q ± methodology emphasizes the individual respondent's subjective orientation and the structure of held values and beliefs.…”

The transition from traditional to postpositivist policy analysis: A role for Q-methodology

“…It has also been used for research in political science (for examples, see Coke and Brown [1976] and Dryzek and Berejikian [1993]), and to a lesser extent, public administration [for example, Gough, Misiti, and Parisi, 1971]. In all, more than 2000 papers using Q-methodology have been published [Peritore, 1990, p. 11].…”

“…For example, if an analyst were studying the issue of whether Georgia's flag should be changed to eliminate the Confederate stars and bars, a Q-methodology study could be used to understand in depth the views of groups opposing and supporting the change. Q-methodology has been used to understand more fully the perspectives of stakeholders toward land-use planning [Coke and Brown, 1976], city-county consolidation [Durning and Edwards, 1992], and animal experimentation [Brown, 1995]. 2.…”