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AbstractThe use of macro studies and aggregate data can obscure important factors that are critical to an assessment of program effects.

Historically, land use had been an exclusively local function. By the early 1960s, a "quiet revolution" broke the local government monopoly over zoning and land use, with a larger state role. Those states which passed land use legislation soon were faced with substantial political opposition, especially from rural dwellers and developers. When Congress considered national land use legislation in the early 1970s. these same interests united in effective opposition.

The organization of graduate programs has received increasing attention lately within political science. Teaching techniques, course requirements, class size, student representation in departmental decision-making processes have all been Investigated. This paper examines another aspect of graduate education, the effect of departmental structure on the learning process. We do not deal with the substance of a political science education, but rather with various dimensions of political science departments as organizations. Our findings are based on a survey of fourteen political science departments that was conducted in the winter of 1970. Questionnaires were sent to faculty and to graduate students In the selected departments, and both sets of respondents were asked questions about their attitudes, preferences, perceptions of others, and their interaction patterns in the department.Our Interest is in departments and the Individual responses are used to define departmental variables. In this paper we examine different characteristics of political science departments, not characteristics of individual students or faculty. Although we get some clues as to what we might expect from organizational theory, our approach is frankly exploratory. First we draw on McQultty's elementary linkage analysis to identify basic distinctions among the departments in our study, and second we use rank order correlation techniques to explore how these and other dimensions go together.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of figures and tables -- Preface -- Part I the context of public concern with nuclear waste -- 1. Public opinion and nuclear waste Policymaking -- 2. The historical development of public reactions to nuclear power: implications for nuclear waste policy -- 3. Perceived risk, trust, and nuclear waste: lessons from yucca mountain -- Part II public reactions to preliminary sites -- 4. Public testimony in nuclear waste repository hearings: a content analysis -- 5. Sources of public concern about nuclear waste disposal in Texas agricultural communities -- 6. Local attitudes toward siting a high-level nuclear waste repository at Hanford, Washington -- Part III public reactions to the yucca mountain, Nevada site -- 7. Perceived risk and attitudes toward nuclear wastes: national and Nevada perspectives -- 8. The vulnerability of the convention industry to the siting of a high-level nuclear waste repository -- 9. Nevada urban residents' attitudes toward a nuclear waste repository -- 10. Rural community residents' views of nuclear waste repository siting in Nevada -- Part IV summary and policy implications -- 11. Prospects for public acceptance of a high-level nuclear waste repository in the united states: summary and implications -- Index -- Contributors