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Investigation as legitimacy: the maturing of the big public inquiry
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In this article, the Sizewell B Inquiry into the first pressurised water reactor in the U.K. is examined with reference to its constitutional role, history, contemporary style and emerging problems of legitimacy.About:
This article is published in Geoforum.The article was published on 1984-01-01. It has received 24 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Legitimacy & Public inquiry.read more
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Sensemaking, communicative distortion and the logic of public inquiry legitimation
TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigate the role of public inquiry as a ceremonial legitimator of state responses to technological disasters, and demonstrate that the public inquiry distorted local logics of safety used by members and transformed these into the top-down logic of safety regulators.
Crisis Sensemaking and the Public Inquiry
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors provide insights into the central role that sensemaking plays during public inquiries and hearings into crises and discuss the important role that public inquiries play in the crisis-management process.
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Governing a nuclear megainvestment: A multi-scalar ethnography of Wylfa Newydd
TL;DR: In this article, a case study focused on the proposed £14bn Wylfa Newydd project on Anglesey, on the northwest fringe of Wales, is presented. And the authors claim that the new nuclear project is better characterised as a megainvestment assembled together from diverse issues across multiple scales, from Welsh language protection to supply chain development, than as a technological object, an energy generating source, or a financial megaproject.
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Levels of environmental decisions
Ola Svenson,Baruch Fischhoff +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, decision theory is used to model the perspectives of two parties in the management of an environmental hazard, i.e., individuals whose homes are polluted by radon byproducts which pose an uncertain health hazard and public authorities concerned about those individuals' welfare.
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Power: A Radical View
TL;DR: The One-Dimensional view, the Two-dimensional view, and the three-dimensional views of power and interest were compared in this article, where the Underlying Concept of Power - Power and Interest - Three Views Compared
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Communication and the Evolution of Society
Jürgen Habermas,Thomas McCarthy +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors introduce Universal Pragmatics and the development of normative structures in the modern state, and present a reconstruction of historical materialism. But they do not address the problem of legitimacy problems in modern state.
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Communication and the Evolution of Society
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors introduce Universal Pragmatics and the development of normative structures in the modern state, and present a reconstruction of historical materialism. But they do not address the problem of legitimacy problems in modern state.
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Contradictions of the welfare state
TL;DR: Contradictions of the Welfare State as discussed by the authors is the first collection of Offe's essays to appear in a single volume in English, and it contains a selection of his most important recent work on the breakdown of the post-war settlement.
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Introduction to critical theory : Horkheimer to Habermas
TL;DR: In this paper, the Frankfurt School and Habermas have been considered as an important part of critical theory, and an assessment of their work can be found in Section 2.1.