Organizational approach to estimating public resistance at proposed disposal sites for radioactive and hazardous wastes
This paper was intended to present an organizational approach to predicting collective action and then to apply that approach to the issue of siting of a nuclear or other hazardous waste repository. Borrowing largely from two previously developed models (one by Perry et al. at Battelle's Human Affairs Research Center and one by Charles Tilly), I developed a theoretical model. Indicators were identified for many of the variables, but they are not easily measured, requiring a number of decisions on thresholds which were not clarified in the paper. What remains is further discussion of these measurement problems, evaluation of the confirmation status of the propositions, and empirical tests of the model. In the meantime, however, the discussion should provide assessors of public resistance with a theoretical basis for their thinking and a guide to some revealing indicators of the potential for collective action.
- Research Organization:
- Argonne National Lab., IL (USA)
- DOE Contract Number:
- W-31-109-ENG-38
- OSTI ID:
- 6348643
- Report Number(s):
- CONF-8209104-2; ON: DE83008605
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: Annual meeting of the American Sociological Association, San Francisco, CA, USA, 6 Sep 1982
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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