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Framing Environmental Disaster: Environmental Advocacy and the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill: Routledge Research in Environmental Policy and Politics

Autor Melissa K. Merry
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 29 ian 2016
The blowout of the Deepwater Horizon and subsequent underground oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico in 2010 is considered by many to be the worst environmental disaster in U.S. history.  Interest groups, public officials, and media organizations have spent considerable time documenting the economic and ecological impacts of this spill as well as the causes of the spill, ostensibly to prevent future disasters of this magnitude. However, rather than an unbiased search for answers, such investigations involve strategic efforts by a variety of political actors to define the spill and its causes in ways that lead to their preferred policy solutions.
Framing Environmental Disaster evaluates the causal stories that environmental groups tell about the spill and develops theoretical propositions about the role of such stories in the policy process. Which actors do groups hold responsible, and how do groups use blame attributions to advance their policy agendas? Constructing a creative methodological approach which includes content analysis drawn from blog posts, emails, press releases, and testimony before Congress and insights and quotations drawn from interviews with environmental group representatives, Melissa K. Merry argues that interest groups construct causal explanations long before investigations of policy problems are complete and use focusing events to cast blame for a wide range of harms not directly tied to the events themselves.  In doing so, groups seek to take full advantage of “windows of opportunity” resulting from crises.
An indispensable resource for scholars of public policy and environmental politics and policy, this book sheds new light on the implications of the gulf disaster for energy politics and policies while advancing scholarly understandings of the role of framing and causal attribution in the policy process.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781138194526
ISBN-10: 1138194522
Pagini: 200
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 11 mm
Greutate: 0.27 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Seria Routledge Research in Environmental Policy and Politics

Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom

Public țintă

Postgraduate

Cuprins

1. Blame Attribution and the Policy Process. 2. Blame-Casting: When Blame Precedes Wrongdoing. 3. Casting a Wide Net of Blame. 4. Policy Solutions Following Disaster. 5. Group Characteristics and Framing Strategies. 6. Blame-Casting in Multiple Media. 7. Impacts of Blame-Casting: Policy Responses to the Gulf Oil Spill. 8. Conclusions.

Notă biografică

Melissa K. Merry is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Louisville. Her research interests include environmental politics and policy, interest groups, and political communication. She has authored articles appearing in American Politics Research, Journal of Information Technology and Politics, and Environmental Politics, among other journals.

Recenzii

"Melissa K. Merry offers a fresh examination in Framing Environmental Disaster: Environmental Advocacy and the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill, using content analysis that includes the innovative use of blogs, emails, news stories and Congressional Testimonies. She discusses how interest groups use events and crises to leverage their cause. Scholars, practitioners and students will benefit from her contribution to the field disaster management and public policy."
Mary D. Bruce, Governors State University

"Melissa Merry’s study of rhetorical strategies used by environmental groups during the Deepwater Horizon is a marker in the systematic study of the framing of arguments in politics. The study will become a model of how to study political rhetoric systematically outside of the confines of the political psychology laboratory. It allows a much firmer analysis of the role of blame attribution in politics."
Bryan D. Jones, University of Texas-Austin

Descriere

Based on a case study of the Gulf oil spill, this book develops a theory about how political actors strategically frame disasters in order to further their policy goals.