Risk Perception by Politicians and the Public
Risk Perception by Politicians and the Public
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政治家和公众的风险认知
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发表时间：
2008
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影响因子：
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通讯作者：
B. Drottz
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作者：
L. Sjöberg;B. Drottz
负责健康和环境的地方政客的风险认知与公众的风险认知在两个具有代表性的大样本中进行了比较，并与一组核废料管理专家进行了比较。收集了关于风险认知的许多方面的数据，重点是电离辐射和核废料问题。研究发现，政客和公众的风险认知平均而言非常相似，与专家的观点大相径庭。政客们很难估计公众的风险认知是什么。对风险缓解的需求主要与受访者对风险的评级有关，对政客和公众都是如此。政客们显然没有在很大程度上考虑公众的意见，以形成他们的政策态度。政客们对工业的信任度低于公众。研究发现，认知信任和社会信任都是影响感知风险的因素，两者的重要性大致相当。风险感知模型也将干扰自然作为一个重要因素，而传统的心理测量学模型因素贡献很小。与他人就核政策问题进行沟通的频率与态度有关；如果沟通越频繁，这种关系就越强烈。这些结果被解读为政策态度的社会验证过程的结果，这一假设也可以解释为什么专家的风险评估与政客和公众相比存在如此大的差异。在这两组人中，对当地高水平核废料储存库的态度都相当消极，而专家们则持积极态度。
Risk perception by local politicians responsible for health and the environment is compared to that of the public in two large, representative samples, and to a group of nuclear waste management experts. Data were collected on many aspects of risk perception with an emphasis on ionizing radiation and nuclear waste issues. It was found that politicians and the public had, on the average, quite similar risk perceptions, which were very different from expert opinion. Politicians had difficulties in estimating what risk perception the public had. Demand for risk mitigation was mostly related to the respondents' ratings of risk, for both politicians and members of the public. Politicians apparently did not consider the public's views to any large degree in forming their policy attitudes. Politicians had less trust in industry than the public did. Both epistemic and social trust were found to be factors in perceived risk, roughly equal in importance. The risk perception models also included Interfering with Nature as an important factor, whereas traditional Psychometric Model factors contributed very little. Frequency of communication with others about a nuclear policy issue was related to attitude; more strongly so if communication was more frequent. The results were interpreted as the outcome of a process of social validation of policy attitudes, a hypothesis which could also explain why experts had so divergent risk assessments as compared to politicians and members of the public. Attitudes to a local high-level nuclear waste repository were quite negative in both groups, positive among the experts.
影响因子：
3.8
作者：
TENGS, TO;ADAMS, ME;GRAHAM, JD
通讯作者：
GRAHAM, JD