A5027509118- Risk Perception and Management
- Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics
- Policy Transfer and Learning
- Sustainability and Climate Change Governance
- Political Influence and Corporate Strategies
- Social Acceptance of Renewable Energy
- Climate Change Communication and Perception
- Judicial and Constitutional Studies
- American Constitutional Law and Politics
- Economic Theory and Institutions
- Environmental Justice and Health Disparities
- Media Studies and Communication
- Public Policy and Administration Research
- Populism, Right-Wing Movements
- Rhetoric and Communication Studies
- Philosophy and History of Science
- Social Media and Politics
- Legal and Constitutional Studies
- Global Energy Security and Policy
- Global Energy and Sustainability Research
- Underground infrastructure and sustainability
- Natural Resources and Economic Development
- Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics
University of Colorado System
2023
University of Colorado Denver
2019-2023
University of Denver
2022
The sociology of emotions reveals how emotion contributes to and helps inform social political issues. This study the literature by examining competing advocacy coalitions ascribe their allies opponents in politically contentious issue siting a gas pipeline project US. It analyses emotional belief expressions people engaged debate approximately 370 newspaper articles. Using Advocacy Coalition Framework as theoretical guide, people’s position on assignment one two coincides with similar...
Emotions are involved in virtually every aspect of human cognition, including information processing and decision-making. Thus, to understand political conflict policy decision-making more fully, we must strive the role emotions these phenomena. This paper explores expressed protests related decisions around COVID-19 pandemic. We collect analyze data on from four U.S. states covered 185 articles 66 newspapers. use an integrated method analysis that incorporates elements Discourse Network...
Abstract This paper compares and contrasts high‐conflict policy debates over the siting of three natural gas pipeline projects at different decision stages process. draws on 600 newspaper articles spanning 3 years, analyzed through Discourse Network Analysis. Drawing from Advocacy Coalition Framework Policy Conflict framework, this finds that actor framing opposing beliefs involves more indirect than direct confrontations, with statements in media waxing waning time. Opponents pipelines...
Maintaining the quality and reliability of electricity transmission lines is central to effective energy governance. However, line siting often a contentious policy decision since permitting constructing may involve private public property, residents communities, localized national concerns. Yet, conflict in across cases over time has remained largely understudied. This article derives tests hypotheses about context completed or constructed between 2017 2018 United States. In exploring full...
This paper portrays a polycentric governance system by exploring the evolution of its structure and interdependencies policymaking venues. It utilizes semi-automated approach developed from institutional grammar to analyze four venues their 55 public policies adopted 2007 through 2019 in context oil gas development Colorado, USA. The results show that this continuously evolves adoption policies, which modifies constellation actors, issues, rules, deontics (i.e., imperatives). In analyzing...
Researchers often focus on the most intense conflicts, skewing our perception of diversity and nature policy conflicts. The paper examines discourse engaged in siting three pipeline projects under construction, each with varying levels conflict, one rejected project high conflict. We analyze over 700 newspaper articles that span life proposed supplement news media data interviews. Using these data, we compare differences actor types, frames, behaviors natural gas processes characterized by...
Measuring policy conflict and concord about natural resource environmental issues has been a challenge for scholars. While some have assessed in particular locations, current approaches are inadequate measuring comparing them across settings or over time. This research note offers methodological approach through systematic analysis of the news media. The combines hand-coding computer-based, semi-automated techniques. We illustrate it an debates shale oil gas development Colorado Ohio between...
Abstract The way in which public policies are composed may lead to conflicts that manifest an extended policymaking duration. This paper explores the associations between policy composition and relative duration for be adopted 15 U.S. state legislatures. We treat passage as indicator of legislative process. adapt institutional grammar tool (IGT) examine how 168 oil gas development gauge association content these speed their adoption. find more stringent, contain constitutive rules, target...
Abstract Across the world, public administration and policy decisions are related to diverse levels of conflict attention. However, degree variance attention remain largely unspecified. This article examines how types energy infrastructure characteristics project location associated with distribution around siting process. Our empirical focus is on gas pipelines, electricity transmission lines, solar power projects, wind projects across United States in 2018. Primarily relying regression...