Collaborative Research: A Comparative Diagnosis of Policy Conflicts: Examining Unconventional Oil and Gas Development across the United States

合作研究：政策冲突的比较诊断：审视美国非常规石油和天然气开发

• 批准号: 1734294
• 负责人: Hongtao Yi
• 金额: $ 32.93万
• 依托单位: Ohio State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2017
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2017-09-01 至 2021-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1734294&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Research; Comparative; Diagnosis; Policy

Every society experiences conflict associated with government policy making. Such conflict affects the capacity of governments to address societal problems. Unconventional oil and gas development that uses hydraulic fracturing is one example of a contentious policy issue that is often associated with policy conflict. Knowledge of the sources, characteristics, and effects of policy conflict around these contentious issues, however, remains underdeveloped. Additionally, while conflicts around oil and gas development appear to be intense and growing, not all oil and gas policy issues are conflictual and not all conflicts are intense or intractable. Therefore, this project explores differences across state-level policy decisions related to oil and gas development over the past decade in order to provide an understanding of how different policy contexts influence the intensity of conflicts and their outcomes. Through this research, the proposed project advances scientific knowledge about policy conflicts. The new knowledge benefits stakeholders of unconventional oil and gas development, individuals interested in understanding how to diagnose and navigate policy conflicts, and scholars interested in theoretical approaches to policy conflicts. Using a new Policy Conflict Framework (PCF) as an analytical guide, the goal of the project is to provide conceptual and theoretical clarification about the factors that explain the variation in policy conflict intensity across policy decisions, along with the expected effects of policy conflicts and policy decisions related to the governance of oil and gas development. In doing so, the study tests newly developed hypotheses related to: 1) how the policy conflict setting affects the intensity of conflicts; 2) how the design of proposed policies affects the intensity of policy conflict; and 3) how the intensity of conflict affects the degree of changes found in proposed policies. The research also examines the distribution of the intensity of policy conflicts, and evaluates processes and outputs of policy decisions related to policy conflicts. The research methods involve identifying the population of all policy decisions around unconventional oil and gas development in state-level regulatory agencies and legislatures, and coding news media related to these policy decisions. Then, the research team takes a sample from this population and uses interviews, surveys, and institutional analyses of policy decisions to collect key indicators of the sources, characteristics, and effects of conflicts. In applying the Policy Conflict Framework, this proposed project builds generalized and localized knowledge about policy conflicts.

每个社会都会经历与政府政策制定相关的冲突。这种冲突影响了政府解决社会问题的能力。使用水力压裂法进行非常规油气开发是一个有争议的政策问题，通常与政策冲突有关。然而，对这些有争议问题的政策冲突的来源、特征和影响的认识仍然不够充分。此外，虽然围绕油气开发的冲突似乎越来越激烈，但并不是所有的油气政策问题都是相互冲突的，也不是所有的冲突都是激烈或难以解决的。因此，本项目探讨了过去十年中与石油和天然气开发相关的州级政策决策的差异，以便了解不同的政策背景如何影响冲突的强度及其结果。通过这项研究，提出的项目推进了关于政策冲突的科学知识。这些新知识有利于非常规油气开发的利益相关者、对如何诊断和应对政策冲突感兴趣的个人，以及对政策冲突的理论方法感兴趣的学者。采用新的政策冲突框架（PCF）作为分析指南，该项目的目标是在概念和理论上澄清解释政策决策中政策冲突强度变化的因素，以及与油气开发治理相关的政策冲突和政策决策的预期影响。在此过程中，本研究检验了以下新发展的假设：1)政策冲突设置如何影响冲突的强度；2)政策建议的设计如何影响政策冲突的强度；3)冲突的强度如何影响拟议政策的变化程度。研究还考察了政策冲突强度的分布，并评估了与政策冲突相关的政策决策的过程和产出。研究方法包括在国家级监管机构和立法机构中确定围绕非常规油气开发的所有政策决策的人口，并对与这些政策决策相关的新闻媒体进行编码。然后，研究小组从这一人群中抽取样本，并使用访谈、调查和政策决策的制度分析来收集冲突来源、特征和影响的关键指标。在应用政策冲突框架时，本项目建立了关于政策冲突的广义和局部知识。

项目成果

Hydraulic fracturing and political conflict: News media coverage of topics and themes across nine states

水力压裂和政治冲突：新闻媒体对九个州的话题和主题的报道

• DOI: 10.1016/j.erss.2020.101660
• 发表时间: 2020
• 期刊: Energy Research & Social Science
• 影响因子: 6.7
• 作者: Berardo, Ramiro;Holm, Federico;Heikkila, Tanya;Weible, Christopher M.;Yi, Hongtao;Kagan, Jennifer;Chen, Catherine;Yordy, Jill
• 通讯作者: Yordy, Jill