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Democracy in the shadows : citizen mobilization in the wake of the accident at Three Mile Island

Title
Democracy in the shadows : citizen mobilization in the wake of the accident at Three Mile Island / Edward J. Walsh.
Author
Walsh, Edward J. (Edward Joseph), 1937-
Publication
New York : Greenwood Press, 1988.

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Description
xiv, 227 pages; 24 cm.
Series Statement
Contributions in sociology, 0084-9278 ; no. 72
Uniform Title
Contributions in sociology ; no. 72.
Subject
  • Metropolitan Edison Company
  • Three Mile Island Nuclear Power Plant (Pa.)
  • Three Mile Island Nuclear Generating Station
  • Nuclear power plants > Pennsylvania > Public opinion
  • Public opinion > Pennsylvania
  • Antinuclear movement > Pennsylvania
  • Antinuclear movement
  • Nuclear power plants > Public opinion
  • Public opinion
  • Antikernkraftbewegung
  • Bürgerbeteiligung
  • Störfall
  • Geschichte (1979-1985)
  • Pennsylvania
Note
  • Includes index.
Bibliography (note)
  • Bibliography: p. [215]-220.
Contents
Democracy, technology, and social movement theory -- A history of the nuclear power industry -- Accident and evacuation -- The return and preparation for protest -- Phase I: mobilization and initial confrontations -- Phase II: coalition formation and the restart hearings -- Phase III: emergent target vulnerabilities -- Phase IV: protests and appeals -- Theory and life in the shadows -- Appendix A. selective chronologies of nuclear events -- Appendix B. codebooks and data sets for activists and free riders.
ISBN
  • 031326063X
  • 9780313260636
LCCN
88010246
OCLC
  • ocm17842642
  • 17842642
  • SCSB-1720896
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library