Identifying the Impact of Collective Action on US Federal Nuclear Energy Policy Between 1975 and 1990

Author(s): James Sanders, Chris Dann, Rafae Qazi, Jintao Zhu, Irene Kyoung, David Zhu

Type: Research abstract

Department: Department of Government

Exhibit no: 78


Our research aims to quantify the impact of protest size on the probability of legislative change.

We do this via a formal two-period model and testing derived hypotheses using a lagged time series model in the context of the US Nuclear Regulatory Committee.