Specifically, she shows how various sets of interests attempted to characterize the dispute in different ways so as to make it appropriate or inappropriate for actors who were organized at different scales to participate in decision making processes – by arguing that the decision over whether to grant a permit for the plant should be made by state economic development officials, for instance, such officials attempted to exclude local parish-level officials and interest groups from being involved, while parish-level groups invoked both localism and the national scale (by appealing to federal regulators) in their efforts to stop the permit being granted