Emotions and Advocacy Coalitions: How Emotions Are Used in Environmental Infrastructure Siting Conflicts

• In Event: Advancing Theory and Measurement in the Context of Environmental Policy

Brief Overview

This paper uses DNA and the ACF to analyze how policy actors use emotions to frame their allies and opponents in the public discourse around a gas pipeline siting conflict in 370 news media articles.

Authors

• Allegra Fullerton, University of Colorado Denver

• Kayla Gabehart, University of Colorado Denver

• Jill Yordy, University of Colorado Denver

• Chris Weible, University of Colorado Denver