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dc.contributor.authorBrown, Antje
dc.date.accessioned2017-06-02T14:30:10Z
dc.date.available2017-06-02T14:30:10Z
dc.date.issued2017-05-01
dc.identifier.citationBrown , A 2017 , ' The dynamics of frame-bridging : exploring the nuclear discourse in Scotland ' , Scottish Affairs , vol. 26 , no. 2 , pp. 194-211 . https://doi.org/10.3366/scot.2017.0178en
dc.identifier.issn0966-0356
dc.identifier.otherPURE: 250153647
dc.identifier.otherPURE UUID: 02245a36-e76a-418d-874c-a8207eb31d22
dc.identifier.otherScopus: 85021385268
dc.identifier.otherWOS: 000399927900004
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10023/10901
dc.description.abstractSimple indicative factors such as political populism and resource abundance cannot fully explain the Scottish Government's anti-nuclear energy policy. To grasp the current policy stance, it is necessary to pay attention to the wider contextualisation of policy framing and specifically the dynamic of story-telling and frame-bridging that ultimately feeds into governmental policy. The Scottish Government's decisive ‘no’ to a new nuclear fleet can be better understood by considering the underlying (and deliberate) bridging of policy frames that is noticeable between environmental, pacifist, and Scottish independence actors. This bridging not only affects the individual sets of story-telling but also develops a dynamic that reinforces individual stories and transcends well beyond the groups' original remit and objectives. With the help of policy framing analysis, research interviews and documentary analysis, the article explores the dynamic connections between anti-nuclear and independence activists and their causes in Scotland. The article highlights their triangular bridges in terms of personnel, language and story-telling and argues that these are instrumental in shaping the Scottish Government's anti-nuclear energy policy.
dc.language.isoeng
dc.relation.ispartofScottish Affairsen
dc.rights© 2017 Edinburgh University Press. This work has been made available online in accordance with the publisher’s policies. This is the author created accepted version manuscript following peer review and as such may differ slightly from the final published version. The final published version of this work is available at: https://doi.org/10.3366/scot.2017.0178en
dc.subjectFrame analysisen
dc.subjectNuclear energyen
dc.subjectScotlanden
dc.subjectPoliticsen
dc.subjectT-NDASen
dc.subjectSDG 7 - Affordable and Clean Energyen
dc.titleThe dynamics of frame-bridging : exploring the nuclear discourse in Scotlanden
dc.typeJournal articleen
dc.description.versionPostprinten
dc.contributor.institutionUniversity of St Andrews. Geography & Sustainable Developmenten
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.3366/scot.2017.0178
dc.description.statusPeer revieweden


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