Robert E O’connor
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 4371798 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Robert E O’connor |
| PRENOMES | Robert E |
| SOBRENOME | O’connor |
| ASSINATURA | O’CONNOR R E |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Pennsylvania State University |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 19 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 134 |
| OBRAS COMO AUTOR | 19 |
| OBRAS COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1972 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2020 |
| ÍNDICE H | 7 |
Comparative risk science for the coronavirus pandemic
Judgment, decision making, and risk researchers have learned a great deal over the years about how people prepare for and react to global risks. In recent years, risk scholars have increasingly focused their energies on climate change, and as pandemic coronavirus has swept the globe many of these scholars are comparing the coronavirus pandemic with climate change to inform risk management. Risk communication research and the best practices develo…
Transparency and the regulatory process in Europe and the United States
Transparency research related to the regulatory process would benefit most from two types of empirical studies. One batch of studies, described in the fifth section of this essay, would focus on the American states and the member states of the European Union to identify the factors that determine whether regulatory processes are more transparent and whether transparency is successful in improving regulations and the regulatory process. In other w…
Targeting and tailoring climate change communications
Social marketing studies suggest that targeting segments of the population, by assessing and addressing their values and motives for actions in the design of communications, can improve the effectiveness of health and environmental communications efforts. Guidance for climate change communication now routinely proposes targeting specific audience segments as a fundamental principle, despite ambiguity regarding what specific behaviors to target an…
Causal thinking and support for climate change policies
Why worry? Community water system managers’ perceptions of climate vulnerability
Democracy and Communicative Rifts
This paper explores the descriptive, critical, and prescriptive potential of a discourse approach for the analysis of environmental policy processes by examining the political controversy surrounding the siting of a radioactive waste repository at Yucca Mountain, Nevada. Following the work of Michel Foucault, we take different discourses as being immediately incommensurable with one another, thereby leading to breakdowns in communication among th…
Who Wants to Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions
Objective . We examine cognitive, economic, and partisan heuristic theories of why some people express support for reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Methods . Data come from a mail survey of 623 residents of central Pennsylvania, a region in which mitigation costs exceed potential benefits from slowing the rate of global warming. Results . Ordinary least squares analysis shows that people who can accurately identify the causes of climate change …
In what sense does the public need to understand global climate change
In a survey of 1,218 Americans, the key determinant of behavioral intentions to address global warming is a correct understanding of the causes of global warming. Knowing what causes climate change, and what does not, is the most powerful predictor of both stated intentions to take voluntary actions and to vote on hypothetical referenda to enact new government policies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Identifying bogus causes (e.g., insecticid…
Risk Perceptions, General Environmental Beliefs, and Willingness to Address Climate Change
The research reported here examines the relationship between risk perceptions and willingness to address climate change. The data are a national sample of 1225 mail surveys that include measures of risk perceptions and knowledge tied to climate change, support for voluntary and government actions to address the problem, general environmental beliefs, and demographic variables. Risk perceptions matter in predicting behavioral intentions. Risk perc…
How information about likely accomplishments affects willingness to sacrifice to reduce global warming
Does information on what a proposed tax or regulation is likely to accomplish affect willingness to sacrifice? The economists' perspective is that having information about what a sacrifice is 'buying' is likely to influence choices. A different perspective is that vote choices in referenda are more of a symbolic exercise, with voters adopting a heuristic toward an issue domain and the heuristic guiding the vote. This research examines the impact …
Books in review
Support for Coups in Democratic Political Culture
Ideology and Elites' Perceptions of the Safety of New Technologies
Theory: The policy learning and advocacy coalition framework emphasizes the importance of journalists and scientists, as well as policymakers, in models of the policy process. At the same time, research from several traditions suggests that elite opinion concerning the safety of nuclear energy, genetic engineering, and other new technologies derives primarily from political ideology. We examine the attitudes of three elite groups that influence p…
Do Women Legislators Matter?
This study evaluates the impact of women state legislators on state abortion policies. Two dimensions of state abortion policy were identified and it was found that women state legislators, once they reach a critical mass within the legislature, can affect state policies on regulations concerning parental notification of abortions, but not public funding. But women legislators, and especially women Democratic legislators, can affect state abortio…
The Undecided Respondent in Mandatory Voting Settings
jOLITICAL SCIENTISTS have devoted great energies to understanding individual choices in presidential elections.' Studies, usually involving survey methods, have taught us a great deal about how people who report their choices reach their decisions. In contrast, we little about respondents who report themselves undecided, except as indecisiveness has been analysed in the context of nonvoting (Hadley 1978; Wolfinger and Rosenstone 1980). This treat…
In Traagency Limitations On Policy Implementation
The literature on policy implementation suggests three major reasons for the failure of program personnel in public bureaucracies to implement policy as expected by upper-level administrators and legislators: (1) lack of understanding of policy ob jectives, (2) lack of resources or capability, and (3) disagreement with policy ob jectives. Most of the literature, however, also either implicitly or explicitly assumes that policies which are not imp…
Scientific and Technological Information in State Legislatures
Political Activism and Moral Reasoning
The results of this analysis may be reduced to four inter-related findings. First, evident throughout the paper is the similarity of activists at all three schools. Cross-national similarities consistently predominate over differences. The same patterns of relationships are found everywhere. This fact, among other things, enhances the credibility of our findings
Electoral Choice and Popular Control of Public Policy
This paper examines two neglected conditions of the linkage process between public opinion and public policy, in an effort to evaluate an explanation, other than voter apathy and ignorance, of why the linkage appears to be so weak. These conditions are: (1) Opposing candidates for the same elective office must differ in their issue-related attitudes. (2) The winners' subsequent behavior vis-à-vis public policy must be consonant with their pre-ele…
Electoral Choice and Popular Control of Public Policy
This paper examines two neglected conditions of the linkage process between public opinion and public policy, in an effort to evaluate an explanation, other than voter apathy and ignorance, of why the linkage appears to be so weak. These conditions are: (1) Opposing candidates for the same elective office must differ in their issue-related attitudes. (2) The winners' subsequent behavior vis-à-vis public policy must be consonant with their pre-ele…
Causal thinking and support for climate change policies
Who Wants to Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions
Objective . We examine cognitive, economic, and partisan heuristic theories of why some people express support for reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Methods . Data come from a mail survey of 623 residents of central Pennsylvania, a region in which mitigation costs exceed potential benefits from slowing the rate of global warming. Results . Ordinary least squares analysis shows that people who can accurately identify the causes of climate change …
Ideology and Elites' Perceptions of the Safety of New Technologies
Theory: The policy learning and advocacy coalition framework emphasizes the importance of journalists and scientists, as well as policymakers, in models of the policy process. At the same time, research from several traditions suggests that elite opinion concerning the safety of nuclear energy, genetic engineering, and other new technologies derives primarily from political ideology. We examine the attitudes of three elite groups that influence p…
Political Activism and Moral Reasoning
The results of this analysis may be reduced to four inter-related findings. First, evident throughout the paper is the similarity of activists at all three schools. Cross-national similarities consistently predominate over differences. The same patterns of relationships are found everywhere. This fact, among other things, enhances the credibility of our findings
Support for Coups in Democratic Political Culture
Targeting and tailoring climate change communications
Social marketing studies suggest that targeting segments of the population, by assessing and addressing their values and motives for actions in the design of communications, can improve the effectiveness of health and environmental communications efforts. Guidance for climate change communication now routinely proposes targeting specific audience segments as a fundamental principle, despite ambiguity regarding what specific behaviors to target an…
Why worry? Community water system managers’ perceptions of climate vulnerability
The Undecided Respondent in Mandatory Voting Settings
jOLITICAL SCIENTISTS have devoted great energies to understanding individual choices in presidential elections.' Studies, usually involving survey methods, have taught us a great deal about how people who report their choices reach their decisions. In contrast, we little about respondents who report themselves undecided, except as indecisiveness has been analysed in the context of nonvoting (Hadley 1978; Wolfinger and Rosenstone 1980). This treat…
Scientific and Technological Information in State Legislatures
How information about likely accomplishments affects willingness to sacrifice to reduce global warming
Does information on what a proposed tax or regulation is likely to accomplish affect willingness to sacrifice? The economists' perspective is that having information about what a sacrifice is 'buying' is likely to influence choices. A different perspective is that vote choices in referenda are more of a symbolic exercise, with voters adopting a heuristic toward an issue domain and the heuristic guiding the vote. This research examines the impact …
Comparative risk science for the coronavirus pandemic
Judgment, decision making, and risk researchers have learned a great deal over the years about how people prepare for and react to global risks. In recent years, risk scholars have increasingly focused their energies on climate change, and as pandemic coronavirus has swept the globe many of these scholars are comparing the coronavirus pandemic with climate change to inform risk management. Risk communication research and the best practices develo…
Democracy and Communicative Rifts
This paper explores the descriptive, critical, and prescriptive potential of a discourse approach for the analysis of environmental policy processes by examining the political controversy surrounding the siting of a radioactive waste repository at Yucca Mountain, Nevada. Following the work of Michel Foucault, we take different discourses as being immediately incommensurable with one another, thereby leading to breakdowns in communication among th…
Electoral Choice and Popular Control of Public Policy
This paper examines two neglected conditions of the linkage process between public opinion and public policy, in an effort to evaluate an explanation, other than voter apathy and ignorance, of why the linkage appears to be so weak. These conditions are: (1) Opposing candidates for the same elective office must differ in their issue-related attitudes. (2) The winners' subsequent behavior vis-à-vis public policy must be consonant with their pre-ele…
Political Activism and Moral Reasoning
The results of this analysis may be reduced to four inter-related findings. First, evident throughout the paper is the similarity of activists at all three schools. Cross-national similarities consistently predominate over differences. The same patterns of relationships are found everywhere. This fact, among other things, enhances the credibility of our findings
In Traagency Limitations On Policy Implementation
The literature on policy implementation suggests three major reasons for the failure of program personnel in public bureaucracies to implement policy as expected by upper-level administrators and legislators: (1) lack of understanding of policy ob jectives, (2) lack of resources or capability, and (3) disagreement with policy ob jectives. Most of the literature, however, also either implicitly or explicitly assumes that policies which are not imp…
Scientific and Technological Information in State Legislatures
The Undecided Respondent in Mandatory Voting Settings
jOLITICAL SCIENTISTS have devoted great energies to understanding individual choices in presidential elections.' Studies, usually involving survey methods, have taught us a great deal about how people who report their choices reach their decisions. In contrast, we little about respondents who report themselves undecided, except as indecisiveness has been analysed in the context of nonvoting (Hadley 1978; Wolfinger and Rosenstone 1980). This treat…
Do Women Legislators Matter?
This study evaluates the impact of women state legislators on state abortion policies. Two dimensions of state abortion policy were identified and it was found that women state legislators, once they reach a critical mass within the legislature, can affect state policies on regulations concerning parental notification of abortions, but not public funding. But women legislators, and especially women Democratic legislators, can affect state abortio…
How information about likely accomplishments affects willingness to sacrifice to reduce global warming
Does information on what a proposed tax or regulation is likely to accomplish affect willingness to sacrifice? The economists' perspective is that having information about what a sacrifice is 'buying' is likely to influence choices. A different perspective is that vote choices in referenda are more of a symbolic exercise, with voters adopting a heuristic toward an issue domain and the heuristic guiding the vote. This research examines the impact …
Books in review
Support for Coups in Democratic Political Culture
Ideology and Elites' Perceptions of the Safety of New Technologies
Theory: The policy learning and advocacy coalition framework emphasizes the importance of journalists and scientists, as well as policymakers, in models of the policy process. At the same time, research from several traditions suggests that elite opinion concerning the safety of nuclear energy, genetic engineering, and other new technologies derives primarily from political ideology. We examine the attitudes of three elite groups that influence p…
Risk Perceptions, General Environmental Beliefs, and Willingness to Address Climate Change
The research reported here examines the relationship between risk perceptions and willingness to address climate change. The data are a national sample of 1225 mail surveys that include measures of risk perceptions and knowledge tied to climate change, support for voluntary and government actions to address the problem, general environmental beliefs, and demographic variables. Risk perceptions matter in predicting behavioral intentions. Risk perc…
In what sense does the public need to understand global climate change
In a survey of 1,218 Americans, the key determinant of behavioral intentions to address global warming is a correct understanding of the causes of global warming. Knowing what causes climate change, and what does not, is the most powerful predictor of both stated intentions to take voluntary actions and to vote on hypothetical referenda to enact new government policies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Identifying bogus causes (e.g., insecticid…
Democracy and Communicative Rifts
This paper explores the descriptive, critical, and prescriptive potential of a discourse approach for the analysis of environmental policy processes by examining the political controversy surrounding the siting of a radioactive waste repository at Yucca Mountain, Nevada. Following the work of Michel Foucault, we take different discourses as being immediately incommensurable with one another, thereby leading to breakdowns in communication among th…
Who Wants to Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions
Objective . We examine cognitive, economic, and partisan heuristic theories of why some people express support for reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Methods . Data come from a mail survey of 623 residents of central Pennsylvania, a region in which mitigation costs exceed potential benefits from slowing the rate of global warming. Results . Ordinary least squares analysis shows that people who can accurately identify the causes of climate change …
Why worry? Community water system managers’ perceptions of climate vulnerability
Causal thinking and support for climate change policies
Targeting and tailoring climate change communications
Social marketing studies suggest that targeting segments of the population, by assessing and addressing their values and motives for actions in the design of communications, can improve the effectiveness of health and environmental communications efforts. Guidance for climate change communication now routinely proposes targeting specific audience segments as a fundamental principle, despite ambiguity regarding what specific behaviors to target an…
Transparency and the regulatory process in Europe and the United States
Transparency research related to the regulatory process would benefit most from two types of empirical studies. One batch of studies, described in the fifth section of this essay, would focus on the American states and the member states of the European Union to identify the factors that determine whether regulatory processes are more transparent and whether transparency is successful in improving regulations and the regulatory process. In other w…
Comparative risk science for the coronavirus pandemic
Judgment, decision making, and risk researchers have learned a great deal over the years about how people prepare for and react to global risks. In recent years, risk scholars have increasingly focused their energies on climate change, and as pandemic coronavirus has swept the globe many of these scholars are comparing the coronavirus pandemic with climate change to inform risk management. Risk communication research and the best practices develo…
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