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Is Opposition to Nuclear Energy an Ideological Critique?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 September 2013

Charles J. Helm ,
Stanley Rothman  and
S. Robert Lichter
Charles J. Helm
Affiliation:
Western Illinois University
Stanley Rothman
Affiliation:
Smith College
S. Robert Lichter
Affiliation:
Center for Media and Public Affairs and American Enterprise Institute
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Abstract

In the June 1987 issue of this Review, Stanley Rothman and S. Robert Lichter offered evidence to support their argument that “the new environmental movement in the United States is partly a symbolic issue,” that elites in the news media and in public interest groups misrepresent the dangers of nuclear energy as a surrogate for more direct criticism of liberal capitalism in the United States. In this controversy, Charles J. Helm expresses skeptictem about the Rothman-Lichter line of argument; and they respond.

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American Political Science Review , Volume 82 , Issue 3 , September 1988 , pp. 943 - 952
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Copyright © American Political Science Association 1988 

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