After Fukushima accident broke out, several countries around the world change have changed their policy toward nuclear power. Such policy turns depended on the people’s opinion which had assumed to change after Fukushima accident.
However, there are very few empirical studies about attitude changes caused by Fukushima accident. This topic is so complex because not only individual factor but also context one contributes to explain the variance of attitude change.
Our studies will analyze the attitude change after Fukushima accidents. To cover both the individual and context variables, we adopt the multilevel modelling. This model will include the information from mass media, perceived risk, perceived benefit, knowledge and trust at the individual level and GDP per capita, dependence on the nuclear power energy, and environmental state at the country level.
We expected that our analysis shows the structure of attitude change caused by accident change.