Crude Contempt: Examining Local Pushback to Oil and Gas Development in California

• Published in: Politics & policy (Statesboro, Ga.) Ga.), 2021-04, Vol.49 (2), p.479-501
• Main Authors: Mahafza, Zachary, Fisk, Jonathan M., Adams, David P.
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Subjects: California; Counties; Decision making; Defiance; Desafío; Estados Unidos; Experiencia electoral; Fracking; Ideología política; NIMBY; Nuclear energy; Oil and Gas; Oil spills; Petroleum; Petróleo y gas; Political attitudes; Political ideologies; Politics; Política y políticas estatales y locales; Principals; Radiation; Resource Management/Natural Resource Management; Riots; Risk perception; State and Local Politics/Government; United States; Voter behavior; Voters; Voting; Voting Behavior; 加州; 反抗; 州和地方政治及政策; 政治意识形态; 水力压裂; 石油和天然气; 美国; 选民经历
• ISSN: 1555-5623; 1747-1346
• DOI: 10.1111/polp.12401

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