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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"focusing events"”.
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Context and Place Effects in Environmental Public Opinion
… protection. In the second chapter, I argue that focusing events can induce self-interested responses from people living in communities whose economies are implicated by the event. I leverage a unique 12-wave panel survey administered between 2008 and 2010 to analyze public opinion toward offshore …
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Pillars of stone or pillars of sand? An analysis of sustainability discourse in U.S. cities
Sustainability has emerged as a common governance paradigm in the United States, supplanting traditional top-down command-and-control regulations with a policy approach characterized by decentralization, municipal innovation, and the goal of ensuring that economic, environmental, and social systems …
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The Expansion of Counter-terrorism in the EU Post-9/11: The Development of EU Aviation Security
… framework consisting of: agenda setting and focusing events, neofunctionalism and spill-over, and supranational policy entrepreneurship. Both documentary analysis and elite interviewing are used to form the basis of the empirical analysis. The thesis considers the origins, development and …
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Legislating the Taboo: Taboo Subcultures, Political Communication, and Public Policy
… changing landscape of psychedelic drug policy, focusing on the role of activists and media in shaping a positive narrative. The third article, "Game-Framing The Tampon Tax," co-authored with Sara De Benedictis and Kaitlynn Mendes, explores the media framing of the tampon tax debate, revealing …
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Public Housing on Risky Ground: A National Study of Flood Risk and Two Case Studies Investigating the Legacy of Environmental Inequality
… is a complex process. Disasters can act as focusing events, generating the political will to implement known mitigation solutions or achieve preexisting redevelopment goals. As climate hazards intensify, policy makers should provide funding for affordable housing stakeholders to make, and …
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enhancement of charge particle emission from a plasma focus device
… that the new device can produce several focusing events in a plasma focus device. The ion beam emission and hard x-ray radiation pulses last longer than that is expected in a conventional plasma focus and their intensities are also higher.
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How Geographic Proximity to the Kennedy Space Center Effects Attitudes Relating to NASA
… to the rocket launches they support serving as focusing events for NASA. Rather than focusing as past scholars have on specific regions, this research examines driving distance from the Kennedy Space Center to provide more detail about the possible relationship between geographic proximity to …
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Struggle and solidarity in transforming urban futures: The fisher fight for Ennore wetlands in Tamil Nadu, India
… agents such as the Northeast monsoon and focusing events such as the 2015 Chennai floods. The study asks: 1. How do subaltern struggles emerge from the margins to challenge hegemonic processes that deny recognition to them and their ways of knowing? 2. How do subaltern struggles for …