Not on Your (Half) Life
The Partisan Geography of Nuclear Waste Disposal
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6182579 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Vincent G Moscardelli, Lawrence A Becker, Lawrence Becker (California State University, Northridge) |
| Year | 2007 |
| Volume | 34 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 55-77 |
| Publication date | 2007-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Congress & the Presidency (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0734-3469 • E-ISSN: 1944-1053 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/07343460709507667 |
| OpenAlex | W2515698118 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 8 |
Between 1987 and 2002, the United States Senate held 20 key roll call votes related to the designation of Yucca Mountain, Nevada as the location for the nation's first high–level nuclear waste repository. During that period, conflict over the issue became increasingly structured by party. At first glance, the highly technical issue of nuclear waste disposal has no obvious partisan dimension. But, linking theories of party government with recent studies of message politics and issue ownership, we show that individual motives–geographic and electoral– tell only part of the evolving story of Yucca Mountain. A complete explanation of senators' behavior on the issue of nuclear waste disposal must incorporate collective (in this case partisan) motives as well
Dimension (graph theory · Government (linguistics · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Radioactive waste · Sociology · Waste disposal · Waste management · Yucca · Electoral Systems and Political Participation · Engineering · Law · Policy Transfer and Learning · Public Administration · Risk Perception and Management
Parties and Leaders in the Postreform House
Procedural Contexts, Party Strategy, and Conditional Party Voting in the U.S. House of Representatives, 1971–2000
Agenda Dynamics and Policy Subsystems
Environmental Policy and Party Divergence in Congress
Issue Ownership in Presidential Elections, with a 1980 Case Study
Examining the Robustness of Ideological Voting
The Shrinking Middle in the US Congress
The Influence of Party
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |