Centro de Documentacion de Fundación MAPFRE - The Impact of accident attention, ideology, and environmentalism on american attitudes toward nuclear energy

MAP20140025558

The Impact of accident attention, ideology, and environmentalism on american attitudes toward nuclear energy / John C. Besley, Sang-Hwa Oh

Sumario: This study involves the analysis of three waves of survey data about nuclear energy using a probability-based online panel of respondents in the United States. Survey waves included an initial baseline survey conducted in early 2010, a follow-up survey conducted in 2010 following the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, and an additional follow-up conducted just after the 2011 Fukushima, Japan, nuclear accident. The central goal is to assess the degree to which changes in public views following an accident are contingent on individual attention and respondent predispositions. Such results would provide real-world evidence of motivated reasoning. The primary analysis focuses on the impact of Fukushima and how the impact of individual attention to energy issues is moderated by both environmental views and political ideology over time. The analysis uses both mean comparisons and multivariate statistics to test key relationships. Additional variables common in the study of emerging technologies are included in the analysis, including demographics, risk and benefit perceptions, and views about the fairness of decisionmakers in both government and the private sector

En: Risk analysis : an international journal. - McLean, Virginia : Society for Risk Analysis, 1987-2015 = ISSN 0272-4332. - 05/05/2014 Volumen 34 Número 5 - mayo 2014 , p. 949-964

1. Análisis de riesgos . 2. Comunicación del riesgo . 3. Energía nuclear . 4. Riesgo nuclear . 5. Medios de comunicación . 6. Opinión pública . 7. Análisis multivariante . 8. Cálculo actuarial . 9. Estados Unidos . 10. Japón . I. Oh, Sang-Hwa . II. Título.