Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
The selection of a potential site for a deep ground repository for nuclear waste in Switzerland is designed as a participatory process where the citizens' opinions play a central role. Understanding how Swiss citizens form and change their opinions over time on this specific issue is this study's main goal. For this purpose, different methodological approaches are needed. First, a longitudinal online survey based on an argumentative approach aims to show the main dynamics and changes of the opinions over time. Second, an agent-based model simulates opinion changes based on the empirical data and sociopsychological theories. Results of the online survey show the replication of a four-opinion cluster (i.e., in favor, opposing, ambivalent, indifferent) and the relevance of using the dimensions of valence and importance for the arguments. The implementation of the agent-based simulation is discussed.
Comunicació de congrés
English
Public opinion; Computational social science; Social simulation
Social Simulation Conference ; 1a : 2014
open access
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