Politics of Public Utility Regulation in the United States, 1980 (ICPSR 8080)

Version Date: Feb 16, 1992

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Principal Investigator(s):
William T. Jr. Gormley

https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR08080.v1

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Summary

For this data collection, interviews were conducted in 1979-1980 with managers associated with the public utility regulation process in 12 states. Respondents were public utility commissioners, public utility commission staff members, utility company executives, assistant attorneys general, and representatives of citizens' groups (both governmental and nongovernmental advocates). Variables include attitudinal measures regarding issues in the public utility regulation process, as well as perceptions of organizational accountability, decision-making processes, allocation of resources, and diffusion of innovations within the various organizations associated with the regulatory process. Background information on each respondent was also collected, but many of these variables were recoded as missing data to protect the anonymity of the respondents.

Citation

Gormley, William T. Jr. Politics of Public Utility Regulation in the United States, 1980. [distributor], 1992-02-16. https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR08080.v1

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Funding

National Science Foundation

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Restrictions

To protect respondent privacy, certain identifying variables are restricted from general dissemination. Aggregations of this information for statistical purposes that preserve the anonymity of individual respondents can be obtained from ICPSR in accordance with existing servicing policies.

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Time Period(s)

1980

Date of Collection

1979 -- 1980

Data Collection Notes

  1. The codebook is provided by ICPSR as a Portable Document Format (PDF) file. The PDF file format was developed by Adobe Systems Incorporated and can be accessed using PDF reader software, such as Adobe Acrobat Reader. Information on how to obtain a copy of the Acrobat Reader is provided on the ICPSR Web site.

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Universe

Managers associated with public utility regulation in 12 states.

Data Source

personal interviews

Data Type(s)

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Original Release Date

1985-03-18

Version History

2018-02-15 The citation of this study may have changed due to the new version control system that has been implemented. The previous citation was:
  • Gormley, William T., Jr. POLITICS OF PUBLIC UTILITY REGULATION IN THE UNITED STATES, 1980. Conducted by William T. Gormley Jr., University of Wisconsin-Madison. ICPSR ed. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [producer and distributor], 1985. http://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR08080.v1

1985-03-18 ICPSR data undergo a confidentiality review and are altered when necessary to limit the risk of disclosure. ICPSR also routinely creates ready-to-go data files along with setups in the major statistical software formats as well as standard codebooks to accompany the data. In addition to these procedures, ICPSR performed the following processing steps for this data collection:

  • Standardized missing values.
  • Performed recodes and/or calculated derived variables.
  • Checked for undocumented or out-of-range codes.
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