The DOI matches its Crossref record; 25 of the 25 references it cites were found in a registry or an index.
Public Attitudes Toward Construction of New Power Plants
Open accessAbstract
Increased demand for U.S. electricity generation will require the construction of hundreds of new power plants in the coming decades. We examine attitudinal data from the 2008 MIT Energy Survey to measure public support for and opposition to the local siting of power plants. Substantial majorities of Americans oppose the location of coal, natural gas, and nuclear power plants in their area, although a majority supports local siting of wind facilities. We find that attitudes about plant siting depend heavily on perceptions of the environmental harm and costs of specific facilities; the effects of these attributes are similar across different types of fuel sources, suggesting that there is a common underlying structure to an individual's attitude. That is, people view all power sources in the same framework and differentiate them on perceived endowments, the most important of which is environmental harm.
Overview
The claims and statistics of this paper haven’t been checked yet.
Run the check — free, no account needed. It reads the open-access text and checks the sources it cites.
Integrity signals
Registry
Cites
Statistics
Verification
Claims the paper makes
The claims and statistics of this paper haven’t been checked yet.
Run the check — free, no account needed. It reads the open-access text and checks the sources it cites.
Self-check
Percentages, sums and reported differences re-computed from the paper’s own numbers.
The self-check needs the paper’s full text.
Citations
Cites
Judgment under Uncertainty: Heuristics and Biases
Tversky, A., & Kahneman, D. (1975) · Utility, Probability, and Human Decision Making · doi:10.1007/978-94-010-1834-0_8 · Cited by 22,650
Slovic, P. (1987) · Science · doi:10.1126/science.3563507 · Cited by 9,271
Male-female wage differentials in urban labor markets
Oaxaca, R. (1973) · International Economic Review · doi:10.2307/2525981 · Cited by 8,463
Wage discrimination: Reduced form and structural estimates
Blinder, A. S. (1973) · The Journal of Human Resources · doi:10.2307/144855 · Cited by 6,922
Judgment Under Uncertainty: Heuristics and Biases.
Shafer, G. R., Kahnerman, D., Slovic, P., & Tversky, A. (1984) · Journal of the American Statistical Association · doi:10.2307/2288362 · Cited by 5,657
Beyond NIMBYism: towards an integrated framework for understanding public perceptions of wind energy
Devine‐Wright, P. (2005) · Wind Energy · doi:10.1002/we.124 · Cited by 1,309
Wolsink, M. (2007) · Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews · doi:10.1016/j.rser.2005.10.005 · Cited by 1,058
Wind power and the NIMBY-myth: institutional capacity and the limited significance of public support
Wolsink, M. (2000) · Renewable Energy · doi:10.1016/s0960-1481(99)00130-5 · Cited by 973
Dohmen, T., Falk, A., Huffman, D., Sunde, U., Schupp, J., & Wagner, G. G. (2005) · SSRN Electronic Journal · doi:10.2139/ssrn.807408 · Cited by 647
‘Green On Green’: Public perceptions of wind power in Scotland and Ireland
Warren, C. R., Lumsden, C., O'Dowd, S., & Birnie, R. V. (2005) · Journal of Environmental Planning and Management · doi:10.1080/09640560500294376 · Cited by 626
Cited by
Limits to deployment of nuclear power for decarbonization: Insights from public opinion
Abdulla, A., Vaishnav, P., Sergi, B., & Victor, D. G. (2019) · Energy Policy · doi:10.1016/j.enpol.2019.03.039 · Cited by 50
Goldfarb, J. L., & Kriner, D. L. (2017) · Science Communication · doi:10.1177/1075547016688325 · Cited by 20
Metadata
- Authors
- Ansolabehere, S., & Konisky, D. M.
- Venue
- Public Opinion Quarterly
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press (OUP)
- Published
- 2009-07-21
- Volume
- 73
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 566-577
- ISSN
- 0033-362X (ISSN-L)
- 1537-5331
- OpenAlex
- W1964132736
- Cited by
- 270
- References
- 25
- FWCI
- 24.97
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
About these checks
Registry, retraction, Cites and statistics results are computed, not judged, with one exception: a printed reference that no index lists is read once by a model before it counts as a citation error. Claims are extracted by a model and kept only when their quote appears verbatim in the text; each cited source is then checked, with a model’s help, for whether it says what the claim relies on. Those verdicts can be wrong — read the claim’s quote and the cited source before relying on one.
Statistics and arithmetic are recomputed, not judged.
Confidence bands are shown only for fields calibrated on our annotated test set. None is calibrated yet, so no band is shown.
What counts as a claim ›How we measure confidence ›How we check this ›
Are you an author, or do you see a problem with this page? Request a review
How to cite
Cite CoChat for the checks on this page, and the paper for its own findings.
- This page
- CoChat. (2026). Citation check: Public Attitudes Toward Construction of New Power Plants. https://app.cochat.ai/papers/10.1093/poq/nfp041
- The paper
- Ansolabehere, S., & Konisky, D. M. (2009). Public Attitudes Toward Construction of New Power Plants. Public Opinion Quarterly. https://doi.org/10.1093/poq/nfp041
Data sources
Bibliographic data: Semantic Scholar, OpenAlex, Crossref.
Contains information from the Semantic Scholar Academic Graph Datasets, made available under the ODC Attribution License (ODC-BY 1.0).
Semantic Scholar’s data is described in: Kinney, R., et al. (2023). The Semantic Scholar Open Data Platform. arXiv:2301.10140.
