Friday, 28 January 2005

NIMBY test

Try this:

"If one of the following were proposed in your locality or neighbourhood, would you support or oppose it?"

  • a new school
  • a retirement home
  • a resettlement centre for young offenders
  • a new age travellers’ camp site
  • a sex offenders’ rehabilitation centre.

This is from the Citizens Audit, reported in Citizenship in Britain: values, participation and democracy / Charles Pattie, Patrick Seyd and Paul Whiteley. CUP, 2004.

28 Jan 2005 17:57:00 | Citizenship and democracy

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