Political frames and legal activity: The case of nuclear power in four countries

Law and Society Review

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 141-174

  Boyle, Elizabeth Heger ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 0040944122     PISSN: 00239216     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/827751     Document Type: Article

References (102)

1. Aberbach, Joe D., Robert D. Putnam, & Bert A. Rockman (1981) Bureaucrats and Politicians in Western Democracies. Cambridge: Harvard Univ. Press.
2. Albers, von Harmut (1980) Gerichtsentscheidungen zu Kernkraftwerken. Villingen-Schwenningen: Neckar-Verlag.
3. Atiyah, P. S. (1987) "Tort Law and the Alternatives: Some Anglo-American Comparisons," 1987 Duke Law J. 1002-44.
4. Badie, Bertrand, & Pierre Birnbaum (1983) The Sociology of the State. Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press.
5. Barkey, Karen, & Sunita Parikh (1991) "Comparative Perspectives on the State," 17 Annual Rev. of Sociology 523-49.
6. Bauer, Etienne, Louis Puiseux, & Pierre-Frederic Teniere-Buchot (1976) "Nuclear Energy: A Fateful Choice for France," Bull. of Atomic Scientists, Jan., pp. 37-41.
7. Beyme, Klaus von (1983) The Political System of the Federal Republic of Germany. Aldershot, Eng.: Gower.
8. Blair, Philip (1981) Federalism and Judicial Review in West Germany. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
9. Blankenburg, Erhard (1994) "The Infrastructure for Avoiding Civil Litigation: Comparing Cultures of Legal Behavior in The Netherlands and West Germany," 28 Law & Society Rev. 789-808.
10. Boyle, Elizabeth Heger (1996) "Litigants, Lawbreakers, Legislators: Using Political Frames to Explain Cross-National Variation in Legal Activity." Ph.D. diss., Dept. of Sociology, Stanford Univ.
11. Boyle, Miriam, & Mike Robinson (1987) "Nuclear Energy in France," in A. Blowers & D. Pepper, eds., Nuclear Power in Crisis: Politics and Planning for the Nuclear State. New York: Nichols Publishing.
12. Calavita, Kitty (1992) Inside the State: The Bracero Program, Immigration, and the I.N.S. New York: Routledge.
13. Campbell, John (1988) Collapse of an Industry: Nuclear Power and the Contradictions of U.S. Policy. Ithaca, NY: Cornell Univ. Press.
14. Childs, David, & Jeffrey Johnson (1981) West Germany: Politics and Society. New York: St. Martin's Press.
15. Cohen, Stephen (1977) Modern Capitalist Planning: The French Model, updated ed. Berkeley: Univ. of California Press.
16. Conradt, David P. (1991) "From Output Orientation to Regime Support: Changing German Political Culture," in U. Hoffmann-Lange, ed., Social and Political Structures in West Germany: From Authoritarianism to Postindustrial Democracy. Boulder, CO: Westview Press.
17. Cook, Constance Ewing (1980) Nuclear Power and Legal Advocacy: The Environmentalists and the Courts. Lexington, MA: Lexington Books.
18. Dahl, Robert A. (1961) Who Governs? Democracy and Power in an American City. New Haven, CT: Yale Univ. Press.
19. _, ed. (1966) Political Oppositions in Western Democracies. New Haven, CT: Yale Univ. Press.
20. Della Porta, Donatella (1996) "Social Movements and the State: Thoughts on the Policing of Protest," in D. McAdams J. D. McCarthy, & M. N. Zald, eds., Comparative Perspectives on Social Movements: Political Opportunities, Mobilizing Structures, and Cultural Framings. New York: Cambridge Univ. Press.
21. Dobbin, Frank (1994) Forging Industrial Policy: The United States, Britain, and France in the Railway Age. New York: Cambridge Univ. Press.
22. Domhoff, G. William (1983) Who Rules America Now? A View for the 1980s. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall.
23. Dyson, Kenneth (1982) "West Germany: The Search for a Rationalist Consensus," in J. Richardson, ed., Policy Styles in Western Europe. London: George Allen & Unwin.
24. Elder, Neil, Alastair Thomas, & David Arter (1988) The Consensual Democracies? The Government and Politics of the Scandinavian States. Oxford: Blackwell.
25. Epp, Charles (1990) "Connecting Litigation Levels and Legal Mobilization: Explaining Interstate Variation in Employment Civil Rights Litigation," 24 Law & Society Rev. 145-63.
26. Espeland, Wendy (1994) "Legally Mediated Identity: The National Environmental Policy Act and the Bureaucratic Construction of Interests," 28 Law & Society Rev. 1149-79.
27. Evans, Peter, Dietrich Rueschmeyer, & Theda Skocpol (1985) Bringing the State Back In. New York: Cambridge Univ. Press.
28. Felstiner, William, Richard Abel, & Austin Sarat (1980-81) "The Emergence and Transformation of Disputes: Naming, Blaming and Claiming . . .," 15 Law & Society Rev. 631-54.
29. Flam, Helena, ed. (1994) States and Antinuclear Movements. Edinburgh: Edinburgh Univ. Press.
30. Flam, Helena, in collaboration with Andrew Jamison (1994) "The Swedish Confrontation over Nuclear Energy: A Case of a Timid Antinuclear Opposition," in Flam, ed., 1994.
31. Frank, David, John Meyer, & David Miyahara (1995) "The Individualist Polity and the Prevalence of Professionalized Psychology: A Cross-National Study," 60 American Sociological Rev. 360-77.
32. Frase, Richard (1990) "Comparative Criminal Justice as a Guide to American Law Reform: How Do the French Do It, How Can We Find Out, and Why Should We Care?" 78 California Law Rev. 539-683.
33. Friedman, Lawrence (1989) "Litigation and Society," 15 Annual Rev. of Sociology 17-29.
34. Giles, Michael, & Thomas Lancaster (1989) "Political Transition, Social Development, and Legal Mobilization in Spain," 83 American Political Science Rev. 817-33.
35. Gilpin, Robert (1968) France in the Age of the Scientific State. Princeton, NJ: Princeton Univ. Press.
36. Gleizal, Jean-Jacques (1980) Le Droit Politique de L'Etat. Paris: Presses Univ. de France.
37. Greve, Michael S. (1989) "The Non-Reformation of Administrative Law: Standing to Sue and Public Interest Litigation in West German Environmental Law," 22 Cornell International Law J. 197-244.
38. Griffin, Stephen (1991) "Bringing State into Constitutional Theory: Public Authority and the Constitution," 16 Law & Social Inquiry 659-710.
39. Haley, John Owen (1978) "The Myth of the Reluctant Litigant," 4 J. of Japanese Studies 359-90.
40. Hamilton, Gary, & John Sutton (1989) "The Problem of Control in the Weak State: Domination in the U.S., 1880-1920," 18 Theory and Society 1-46.
41. Harrison, Michael (1987) "Government and Politics," in R. Shinn, ed., Italy: A Country Study. Washington: Headquarters, Department of the Army.
42. Hatch, Michael (1986) Politics and Nuclear Power: Energy Policy in Western Europe. Lexington: Univ. Press of Kentucky.
43. Hayward, Jack (1986) The State and the Market Economy: Industrial Patriotism and Economic Intervention in France. New York: New York Univ. Press.
44. Heclo, Hugh, & Henrik Madsen (1987) Policy and Politics in Sweden: Principled Pragmatism. Philadelphia: Temple Univ. Press.
45. Heydebrand, Wolf (1990) "Government Litigation and National Policymaking: From Roosevelt to Reagan," 24 Law & Society Rev. 477-95.
46. Ietswaart, Heleen F. P. (1990) "The International Comparison of Court Caseloads: The Experience of the European Working Group," 24 Law & Society Rev. 571-93.
47. Inglehart, Ronald (1997) Modernization and Postmodernization: Cultural, Economic, and Political Change in 43 Societies. Princeton, NJ: Princeton Univ. Press.
48. Jasper, James M (1990) Nuclear Politics: Energy and the State in the United States, Sweden, and France. Princeton, NJ: Princeton Univ. Press.
49. Joppke, Christian (1993) Mobilizing against Nuclear Energy: A Comparison of Germany and the United States. Berkeley: Univ. of California Press.
50. Katzenstein, Peter (1987) Policy and Politics in West Germany: The Growth of a Semi-sovereign State. Philadelphia: Temple Univ. Press.
51. Kitschelt, Herbert (1984) "Political Opportunity Structures and Political Protest: Anti-Nuclear Movements in Four Democracies," 16 British J. of Political Science 58-85.
52. Kohn, Melvin (1989) Cross-National Research in Sociology. Newbury Park, CA: Sage Publications.
53. Kommers, Donald (1976) Judicial Politics in West Germany: A Study of the Federal Constitutional Court. Beverly Hills: SAGE.
54. Kriesi, Hanspeter (1995) "The Political Opportunity of New Social Movements: Its Impact on Their Mobilization," in J. C. Jenkins & B. Klandermans, eds., The Politics of Social Protest: Comparative Perspectives on States and Social Movements. Minneapolis: Univ. of Minnesota Press.
55. Lane, Jan-Erik, & Tage Magnusson (1987) "Sweden," in E. Page & M. Goldsmith, eds., Central and Local Government Relations. London: Sage Publications.
56. Lieberman, Jethro (1983) The Litigious Society. New York: Basic Books.
57. Lijphart, Arend (1984) Democracies: Patterns of Majoritarian and Consensus Government in Twenty-One Countries. New Haven, CT: Yale Univ. Press.
58. Lipset, Martin (1994) "The Social Requisites of Democracy Revisited: 1993 Presidential Address," 59 American Sociological Rev. 1-22.
59. Lucas, Nigel (1985) Western European Energy Policies. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
60. Markesinis, Basil (1990) "Litigation Mania in England, Germany, and the USA: Are We So Very Different?" 49 Cambridge Law J. 233-76.
61. Merryman, John Henry (1985) The Civil Law Tradition. Stanford, CA: Stanford Univ. Press.
62. Meyer, John W. (1987) "Ontology and Rationalization in the Western Cultural Account," in G. Thomas et al., eds., Institutional Structure: Constituting State, Society, and the Individual. Newbury Park, CA: Sage Publications.
63. Meyer, John W., & Ronald Jepperson (1996) "The Actor and the Other: Cultural Rationalization and the Ongoing Evolution of Modern Agency." Unpublished, Stanford Univ.
64. Munger, Frank (1988) "Law, Change, and Litigation: A Critical Examination of an Empirical Research Tradition," 22 Law & Society Rev. 57-101.
65. _. (1990) "Afterword: Studying Litigation and Social Change," 24 Law & Society Rev. 595-615.
66. Nathanson, Constance (1996) "Associational Standing in France and the United States with Special Reference to Tobacco Litigation." Presented at American Sociological Association annual meetings, August.
67. Nelkin, Dorothy, & Michael Pollak (1977) "The Politics of Participation and the Nuclear Debate in Sweden, The Netherlands, and Austria," 25 Public Policy 333-57.
68. _. (1980) "Political Parties and the Nuclear Energy Debate in France and Germany," 12 (2) Comparative Politics 127-41.
69. _. (1981) The Atom Besieged: Extraparliamentary Dissent in France and Germany. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
70. Olsen, Marvin (1982) Participatory Pluralism: Political Participation and Influence in the United States and Sweden. Chicago: Nelson-Hall.
71. Olson, Walter K. (1991) The Litigation Explosion: What Happened When America Unleashed the Lawsuit. New York: Dutton.
72. Price, Jerome (1990) The Antinuclear Movement. Rev. ed. Boston: Twayne Publishers.
73. Prichard, J. Robert (1988) "A Systemic Approach to Comparative Law: The Effect of Cost, Fee, and Financing Rules on the Development of the Substantive Law," 17 J. of Legal Studies 451-75.
74. Provine, Doris Marie (1996) "Courts in the Political Process in France," in H. Jacob et al., eds., Courts, Law, and Politics in Comparative Perspective. New Haven, CT: Yale Univ. Press.
75. Reed Elsevier Inc. (1997) Martindale-Hubbell International Law Digest. Summit, NJ: Martindale-Hubbell.
76. Rosenberg, Gerald (1991) The Hollow Hope: Can Courts Bring About Social Change? Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press.
77. Rucht, Dieter (1994) "The Antinuclear Power Movement and the State in France," in Flam, ed., 1994.
78. Ruin, Olaf (1982) "Sweden in the 1970s: Policy-Making Becomes More Difficult," in J. Richardson, ed., Policy Styles in Western Europe. London: George Allen & Unwin.
79. Sahr, Robert (1985) The Politics of Energy Policy Change in Sweden. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.
80. Sanders, Joseph (1990) "The Interplay of Micro and Macro Processes in the Longitudinal Study of Courts: Beyond the Durkheimian Tradition," 24 Law & Society Rev. 24:241-56.
81. Sarat, Austin, & Joel Grossman (1975) "Courts and Conflict Resolution: Problems in the Mobilization of Adjudication," 69 American Political Science Rev. 1200-1217.
82. Sarat, Austin, & Susan Silbey (1988) "The Pull of the Policy Audience," 10 Law & Policy 97-166.
83. Savelsberg, Joachim (1994) "Knowledge, Domination, and Criminal Punishment," 99 American J. of Sociology 911-43.
84. Schmitter, Phillippe (1974) "Still the Century of Corporatism?" in F. Pike & T. Strich, eds., The New Corporatism. Notre Dame, IN: Notre Dame Univ. Press.
85. Shefter, Martin (1994) Political Parties and the State: The American Historical Experience. Princeton, NJ: Princeton Univ. Press.
86. Shinn, R. S. (1985) "Government and Politics," in S. B. Wickman, ed., Belgium: A Country Study. Washington: GPO.
87. Smelser, Neil, with B. Badie & P. Birnbaum (1994) "The Sociology of the State Revisited," in N. Smelser, ed., Sociology. Cambridge, MA: Blackwell.
88. Snow, David, E. Burke Rochford, & Steven Worden (1986) "Frame Alignment Processes, Micromobilization, and Movement Participation," 51 American Sociological Rev. 464-81.
89. Soysal, Yasemin Nahoglu (1994) Limits of Citizenship: Migrants and Postnational Membership in Europe. Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press.
90. Stromholm, Stig (1981) An Introduction to Swedish Law. Stockholm: Norstedt.
91. Suchman, Mark, & Lauren B. Edelman (1994) "Legal Rational Myths: Lessons for the New Institutionalism from the Law and Society Tradition." Presented at Law & Society Association annual meetings, Phoenix, AZ.
92. Suleiman, Ezra N. (1974) Politics, Power, and Bureaucracy in France: The Administrative Elite. Princeton, NJ: Princeton Univ. Press.
93. Sweet, William (1977) "The Opposition to Nuclear Power in Europe." Bull. of Atomic Scientists, Dec., pp. 40-47.
94. Tocqueville, Alexis de (1966 [1835]) Democracy in America. New York: Alfred A. Knopf.
95. Touraine, Alain (1983) Anti-nuclear Protest: The Opposition to Nuclear Energy in France. New York: Cambridge Univ. Press.
96. Van Loon, F., & E. Langerwerf (1990) "Socioeconomic Development and the Evolution of Litigation Rates in Civil Courts in Belgium, 1835-1980," 24 Law & Society Rev. 283-98.
97. Wagner, Peter (1994) "Contesting Policies and Redefining the State: Energy Policy-making and the Antinuclear Movement in West Germany," in Flam, ed., 1994.
98. Wenner, Lettie (1982) The Environmental Decade in Court. Bloomington: Indiana Univ. Press.
99. Wiarda, Howard J. (1993) "Government and Politics," in E. Solsten, ed., Portugal: A Country Study. Washington: GPO.
100. Wittrock, Björn (1980) "Science Policy and the Challenge of the Welfare State," 3 Western European Politics 358-72.
101. Zhou, Xueguang (1993) "Unorganized Interests and Collective Action in Communist China," 58 American Sociological Rev. 54-73.
102. Zysman, John (1977) Political Strategies for Industrial Order: State, Market, and Industry in France. Berkeley: Univ. of California Press.