Which is more effective in China? How communication tools influence public acceptance of nuclear power energy

Zhou, Lingyi; Dai, Yixin

doi:10.1016/j.enpol.2020.111887

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“…Firstly, it is often difficult for the public to obtain sufficient information about the projects, so they are more willing to rely on the authorities responsible for decisions and actions on technology management and policy implementation (Liu et al ., 2019). Secondly, UTIPs generate both benefits and risks, while the general public often lack knowledge and expertise to fully assess complex UTIPs like Metro and Bridge, the information and recommendations provided by the authorities are indispensable (Zhou and Dai, 2020). Thirdly, self-efficacy is seen as a function of self-trust or self-confidence (Dougherty and Olsen, 2014).…”

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Ability or morality? Exploring the multiple dimensions of social trust on public acceptance of urban transport infrastructure projects

Wang

Zuo

et al. 2023

IJMPB

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PurposeThe public's trust in the authorities has a great impact on people's perception and cognition on development of different types of urban transport infrastructure projects (UTIPs). Given the importance of public acceptance for the efficient construction and operation of UTIPs, this study aims at investigating the personal and environmental factors that influence public acceptance behavior from the perspective of stakeholder management.Design/methodology/approachBased on social cognitive theory (SCT), this study explores the multiple dimensions of social trust on public acceptance in the development of UTIPs by a comparative case study. Two types of UTIPs, a metro railway and a bridge in the Wuhan City, China, were selected as cases, with a questionnaire distributed among the public to collect their sense of trust towards the development of these projects. The data were analyzed through structural equation modeling (SEM).FindingsThis study reveals that social trust positively influences public acceptance, directly or indirectly through perceived benefit and -risks and self-efficacy. However, the emphasis on social trust about competence and integrity of the authorities varies with the types of projects. Self-efficacy worked as the “mirror of trust” reflecting people's attitude towards social trust in the authorities on their ability and morality.Originality/valueThe value of the paper lies in discussing social trust from multiple dimensions in the field of urban infrastructures, which provides new insights into specific mechanisms for shaping public acceptance in project management towards the development of UTIPs.

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“…CFA was first conducted to test the reliability and validity of the data. To measure the reliability and internal consistency, Cronbach's α values were calculated to ensure the average linear correlation among items belongs to the same scale (Zhou and Dai, 2020).…”

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Ability or morality? Exploring the multiple dimensions of social trust on public acceptance of urban transport infrastructure projects

Wang

Zuo

et al. 2023

IJMPB

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“…Policy makers are supposed to pay enough attention to the characteristics of the target audience, including their attitudes, behaviors, motivations and previous reactions to policy initiatives directed at them (Bagchus, 1998 ; Bemelmans-Videc et al, 1998a ; Egmond et al, 2006 ). Previous research has showed various factors would influence public attitude toward policies or regulations, such as perceived fairness (Jakobsson et al, 2000 ; Jagers et al, 2010 ; Zannakis et al, 2015 ), perceived policy effectiveness (Chen and Zhao, 2013 ), policy characteristics (De Groot and Schuitema, 2012 ), psychological factors (Eriksson et al, 2006 ), trust in authorities (Bronfman et al, 2008 ; Jagers et al, 2010 ; Zannakis et al, 2015 ; Zhou and Dai, 2020 ), ideology (Jagers et al, 2010 ), and so on. In this research, we try to investigate the roles of political trust, policy effectiveness and knowledge of policies in policy support.…”

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What is policy content and how is the public's policy support? A policy cognition study based on natural language processing and social psychology

Zhou

Dai

Ren³

et al. 2022

Front. Psychol.

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Public policy plays a critical role in coordinating social resources, providing public services, and promoting public value. However, few studies have systematically investigated the public's policy cognition from the objective aspect of policy content and the subjective aspect of target audience's policy support. To fill this gap, we explore the policy content via natural language processing and also policy support from the perspective of social psychology. Specifically, regarding the policy content analysis, we collect over one thousand policy documents and design an annotation system by analyzing the policy content, basic structure and text features, and then utilize text classification and information retrieval models based on the Chinese large-scale pre-trained models. Moreover, according to the policy tools identified in the content analysis, our paper investigates the audience's policy support for these tools and its influential factors. Based on a sample of 476 respondents from the whole country, we adopt the ordinary least square method to explore the key factors of policy support for supply, demand and environmental tools from three variables: political trust, policy effectiveness and knowledge of policies. This study contributes to existing literature by forming a structured understanding of policies and exploring public support for policy tools, which could benefit the practitioners during the policy-making process and also enhance successfully policy implementation.

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“…In the past two or three years, including the year 2022, Chinese scholars’ international research on dynamic disaster monitoring and early warning has also begun to show more research on carbon neutrality and the COVID-19 epidemic, which involves the fields of emergency management, environmental research, and public health research, and is also the content of disaster prevention and mitigation and emergency management that China’s policy has focused on in recent years [ 6 , 20 , 31 , 42 , 46 , 58 ]. It is found that in recent years, the relevant policies and research contents of dynamic disaster monitoring and early warning are constantly enriched, and the scope is constantly expanding, and the relationship between academic research and policy themes is becoming closer and closer.…”

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“…Some scholars have carried out a series of studies and exploration on the selection and application of methods based on water and soil environment management and disaster monitoring and early warning, and in terms of recently occurring pandemics (COVID-19) and recently used feature selection methodologies (such as machine learning models, data mining techniques, artificial intelligent models, big data analysis, and other integrated methodologies) [ 14 , 20 , 21 , 22 , 23 ]. The quantity and quality of Chinese scholars’ papers have been increased and strengthened after entering the new century, and the close relationship with national policies has also been strengthened, forming a good relationship of mutual promotion [ 24 , 25 , 26 , 27 , 28 , 29 , 30 , 31 , 32 , 33 ]. The research of Chinese scholars in relevant fields includes not only the research on prevention and early warning of natural disasters, postdisaster assessment, and treatment in a certain field [ 34 , 35 , 36 , 37 , 38 , 39 , 40 ], but also the research on the construction of the entire disaster early warning monitoring system, disaster management, and emergency management system [ 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 , 41 , 42 , 43 ].…”

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Comparative Study on International Research Hotspots and National-Level Policy Keywords of Dynamic Disaster Monitoring and Early Warning in China (2000–2021)

Gao

Zhang

Yang

et al. 2022

IJERPH

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For more than 20 years, disaster dynamic monitoring and early warning have achieved orderly and sustainable development in China, forming a systematic academic research system and top-down policy design, which are inseparable from the research of China’s scientific community and the promotion of government departments. In the past, most of the research on dynamic disaster monitoring and early warning focused on specific research in a certain field, scene, and discipline, while a few studies focused on research review or policy analysis, and few studies combined macro and meso research reviews in academia with national policy analysis for comparative analysis. It is necessary and urgent to explore the interaction between scholars’ research and policy deployment, which can bring theoretical contributions and policy references to the top-down design, implementation promotion, and academic research of China’s dynamic disaster monitoring and early warning. Based on 608 international research articles on dynamic disaster monitoring and early warning published by Chinese scholars from 2000–2021 and 187 national policy documents published during this period, this paper conducts a comparative analysis between the knowledge maps of international research hotspots and the co-occurrence maps of policy keywords on dynamic disaster monitoring and early warning. The research shows that in the stage of initial development (2000–2007), international research articles are few and focused, and research hotspots are somewhat alienated from policy keywords. In the stage of rising development (2008–2015), after the Wenchuan earthquake, research hotspots are closely related to policy keywords, mainly in the fields of geology, engineering disasters, meteorological disasters, natural disasters, etc. Meanwhile, research hotspots also focus on cutting-edge technologies and theories, while national-level policy keywords focus more on overall governance and macro promotion, but the two are gradually closely integrated. In the stage of rapid development (2016–2021), with the continuous attention and policy promotion of the national government, the establishment of the Ministry of Emergency Management, and the gradual establishment and improvement of the disaster early warning and monitoring system, research hotspots and policy keywords are integrated and overlapped with each other, realizing the organic linkage and mutual promotion between academic research and political deployment. The motivation, innovation, integration, and transformation of dynamic disaster monitoring and early warning are promoted by both policy and academic research. The institutions that issue policies at the national level include the State Council and relevant departments, the Ministry of Emergency Management, the Ministry of Water Resources, and other national ministries and commissions. The leading affiliated institutions of scholars’ international research include China University of Mining and Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan University, Shandong University of Science and Technology, and other institutions. The disciplines involved are mainly multidisciplinary geosciences, environmental sciences, electrical and electronic engineering, remote sensing, etc. It is worth noting that in the past two to three years, research and policies focusing on COVID-19, public health, epidemic prevention, environmental governance, and emergency management have gradually increased.

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Which is more effective in China? How communication tools influence public acceptance of nuclear power energy

Cited by 13 publications

References 40 publications

Ability or morality? Exploring the multiple dimensions of social trust on public acceptance of urban transport infrastructure projects

Ability or morality? Exploring the multiple dimensions of social trust on public acceptance of urban transport infrastructure projects

What is policy content and how is the public's policy support? A policy cognition study based on natural language processing and social psychology

Comparative Study on International Research Hotspots and National-Level Policy Keywords of Dynamic Disaster Monitoring and Early Warning in China (2000–2021)

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