Public opinion on megaprojects over time: findings from four megaprojects in the UK

Oishee Kundu; Andrew James; John Rigby

doi:10.1080/14719037.2021.2003107

Public opinion on megaprojects over time: findings from four megaprojects in the UK

Oishee Kundu, Andrew James, John Rigby

University of Manchester

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Abstract

Megaprojects, due to their size, scale, and technical complexity are expensive and controversial, and how they proceed over time is a key topic of interest. This paper seeks to identify the issues surrounding changes in public opinion over time and discusses a larger question on whether such knowledge can be generalized across projects. An automated text analysis technique called ‘sentiment analysis’ has been used to plot trajectories for four UK megaprojects from newspaper articles. The empirical setting includes two military and two (civil) infrastructure projects, allowing the exploration of differences between the two fields as a secondary line of analysis.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1015-1038
Number of pages	24
Journal	Public Management Review
Volume	25
Issue number	6
Early online date	25 Nov 2021
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1080/14719037.2021.2003107
Publication status	Published - 31 Dec 2023

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Funding Information:
This work was funded through the Alliance Manchester Business School Doctoral Scholarship (2017), The University of Manchester.

Keywords

Anna Karenina
Megaproject
public opinion
sentiment analysis

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Public opinion on megaprojects over time: findings from four megaprojects in the UK

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