
While a ban has been instituted, the failure to bridge discourse coalitions suggests that controversy will persist unless meaning disputes are resolved. MAGGIE HASSAN’S WORST HITS: Maggie Hassan’s Partisan Budget Veto.


NRSC Communications Director Andrea Bozek. In New York, this contest evolved from a policy consensus about the economic benefits of fracking to policy negotiation that incorporated environmental threats, and to prolonged policy controversy in which competing discourse coalitions contested notions of fracking in relation to energy production, environmental protection, public health, economic development, and governance. Governor Gridlock Maggie Hassan has failed to move New Hampshire forward and now she wants to take her resume of partisan gridlock to Washington as Harry Reid’s hand-picked Senate candidate. Our main finding is that a central mechanism of gridlock is the production of conflict through interactive framing dynamics that deny a shared discursive space capable of ushering in a consensus, or reasoned agreement. Yet, we lack knowledge about interactive framing between competing coalitions during policy controversies. This suggests that the interaction between contending coalitions influences gridlock. While policy scholars typically conceptualize gridlock as policy stability, this paper examines it as a dynamic process by which competing discourse coalitions engage in interactive framing processes that (re)structure the discussion. The gridlock is an intriguing puzzle given that the Marcellus shale is considered a ‘world class’ energy supply, and development has been aggressive in other US states. When a gridlock alert went out to North Stamford residents earlier this month in anticipation of President Obama’s appearance there at a fund-raiser, Rick Tippett didn’t alter his.

NYC Gridlock Alert Peaks Today With Biden in Town for UN General Assembly. ‘Fracking’ was on New York's agenda since 2008, yet no decision was made about it until late 2014. By Ray Villeda and Michael George Published Novem Updated on Novemat 11:32 am.
