A four-party view of US environmental concern
A four-party view of US environmental concern
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DOI：
10.1080/09644016.2014.976485
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发表时间：
2015-03-04
影响因子：
5.5
通讯作者：
Saito, Kei
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作者：
Hamilton, Lawrence C.;Saito, Kei
对美国公众对环境问题的关注的研究发现，意识形态或政党是最一致的背景预测因素。政党通常由三个群体定义：民主党人，共和党人和无党派人士。在这里，使用全州范围内的新罕布什尔州的调查数据，我们阐述了这种方法来区分第四组：受访者谁说，他们支持茶党运动。在12个与科学或环境有关的问题中，有8个问题，茶党支持者与非茶党共和党人存在显著差异。与非茶党共和党人相比，茶党支持者不太可能相信科学家提供的有关环境问题的信息，接受人类进化，相信物理现实或人为气候变化的科学共识，或者认识到北极冰，冰川或二氧化碳的趋势。尽管事实上存在差距，但茶党支持者对自己对气候变化的理解表现出更大的信心。另一方面，独立人士在这些问题上与非茶党共和党人的分歧较小，尽管独立人士更经常接受气候变化的科学共识。在许多科学和环境问题上，共和党人和茶党支持者的立场比共和党人和无党派人士的立场更远。
Research on US public concern about environmental issues finds ideology or political party are the most consistent background predictors. Party is commonly defined by three groups: Democrats, Republicans, and Independents. Here, using statewide New Hampshire survey data, we elaborate this approach to distinguish a fourth group: respondents who say they support the Tea Party movement. On 8 out of 12 science- or environment-related questions, Tea Party supporters differ significantly from non-Tea Party Republicans. Tea Party supporters are less likely than non-Tea Party Republicans to trust scientists for information about environmental issues, accept human evolution, believe either the physical reality or the scientific consensus on anthropogenic climate change, or recognise trends in Arctic ice, glaciers, or CO2. Despite factual gaps, Tea Party supporters express greater confidence in their own understanding of climate change. Independents, on the other hand, differ less from non-Tea Party Republicans on most of these questionsalthough Independents do more often accept the scientific consensus on climate change. On many science and environmental questions, Republicans and Tea Party supporters stand farther apart than Republicans and Independents.