The logic of deflective action: US energy shocks and the US policy process

Grossman, Peter Z.

doi:10.1017/s0143814x11000195

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“…In our dataset, these years are 1973–74 (OPEC boycott of nations supporting Israel), 1978–80 (Iran crisis), 1989 (Exxon Valdez oil spill), 1990–91 (Persian Gulf War), and 2003 (Iraq invasion). These dates are used almost universally in the literature on American energy policies as potentially important, unplanned events (Bolsen & Cook, ; Fiege, ; Graetz, ; Grossman, ; Ostrander & Lowry, ) . All were dramatic, visible events that likely increased salience of energy issues.…”

Section: Analyzing Salience Of Energy Issuesmentioning

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The Determinants of Salience of Energy Issues

Lowry

Joslyn

2014

Review of Policy Research

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Studies show that salience of an issue influences the behavior of political elites, policy responses, and the attitudes of the public. Yet while the effects of salience are given considerable attention, less is known about the factors that produce salience. Specifically, what are the determinants of an issue's salience? We examine salience of energy issues in the United States over the past six decades and make two contributions. First, we provide systematic explanations of issue salience. Second, contrary to popular conceptions that energy salience is driven entirely by gasoline prices, or some scholarly analyses that salience depends on crises, we argue that other factors increase salience. Specifically, we find that political actors and activities increase energy salience, even after controlling for higher gas prices and shocks. This is an important finding; political dynamics enhance salience. Meaningful political action, therefore, driven by enhanced salience, is not entirely dependent on market forces or unplanned events.

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“…These authors vary slightly in identifying shocks. Grossman (), for instance, does not include the Exxon Valdez spill. However, modest modifications (such as not including the spill) do not diminish the performance of this variable in the equations.…”

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The Determinants of Salience of Energy Issues

Lowry

Joslyn

2014

Review of Policy Research

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“…The 2007 Energy Independence and Security Act (EISA), signed into law on December 2007, listed as one of its aims the desire “to increase the production of clean renewable fuels”. As Grossman (2012, 47) observes and as we document later in this paper, in the Congressional debates that led up to EISA, ethanol was depicted “as a transformative technology: it would make the country largely independent of foreign (especially Middle Eastern) oil, would be home-grown, would employ many thousands of Americans, would reduce energy costs in the long run, and would be environmentally superior to fossil fuels”.…”

Section: American Biofuel Policy Developmentmentioning

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Policy image resilience, multidimensionality, and policy image management: a study of US biofuel policy

Mondou¹,

Skogstad²,

Houle³

2014

J. Pub. Pol.

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This paper contributes to our understanding of why delegitimising focusing events, combined with the mobilisation of policy losers, does not always result in major policy change by undermining a monopolistic policy image and policy subsystem. Based on a close enquiry of American biofuel policy development, it argues that we can make headway in this endeavour by focusing on three factors: first, the congruence of a policy image with core values of the polity; second, the multidimensionality of a policy image; and third, policy image management strategies that maintain cohesion among coalition supporters and respond to outside criticism. In understanding better why some policy images (and policy monopolies) prove resilient when they come under assault, this paper offers a single case plausibility probe supported by indicative evidence from other policy studies.

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“…Since quangos have been criticized as being inefficient, corrupt, and unconcerned about public needs, a strong call to change quangos may affect politicians who want to be reelected and are sensitive to reputation. They are willing to ''do something'' as a reaction to the criticism (Hood 2002;Grossman 2012). As social demands and pressures are closely related to political incentives to reform quangos, politicians expect higher benefits from the reform with fewer costs.…”

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What Causes the Death of Public Sector Organizations? Understanding Structural Changes and Continuities in Korean Quangos

Park

2013

International Public Management Journal

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This study explores the determinants of structural changes and continuities of public sector organizations in Korea using longitudinal data. Focusing on the political costs of termination, we examine external and internal factors that are closely linked to the political incentives to terminate quangos. This article primarily addresses the following question: What determines the termination of public sector organizations? The model suggests that survivability of public sector organizations largely depends on external factors such as political, institutional, and social changes. Specifically, quangos are more likely to be terminated during political turnovers and the period when presidential power is maximized. Termination seems easier for politicians when social demands are mature enough to blow away political burdens and cynicism. Although organizations with fewer resources are more vulnerable to external pressures and shocks, none of the quango-specific factors significantly affect the survivability of Korean quangos.

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The logic of deflective action: US energy shocks and the US policy process

Cited by 18 publications

References 9 publications

The Determinants of Salience of Energy Issues

The Determinants of Salience of Energy Issues

Policy image resilience, multidimensionality, and policy image management: a study of US biofuel policy

What Causes the Death of Public Sector Organizations? Understanding Structural Changes and Continuities in Korean Quangos

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