Anomalous Anglophones? Contours of free market ideology, political polarization, and climate change attitudes in English-speaking countries, Western European and post-Communist states
Anomalous Anglophones? Contours of free market ideology, political polarization, and climate change attitudes in English-speaking countries, Western European and post-Communist states
复制标题
异常的英语国家？
作者：
E. K. Smith;Adam Mayer
最近的学术研究彻底记录了美国、英国、加拿大和澳大利亚等大多数英语国家对气候变化的态度。在这些国家，政治认同被广泛认为是气候变化态度的唯一强有力的预测因素，至少在美国，几项研究发现，教育缓和了政治认同的影响。气候变化态度和政治认同的跨国动态没有得到很好的描述，特别是在有国家社会主义历史的国家。在这份手稿中，我们考虑了政治和自由市场意识形态两极分化在英语国家、西欧和后共产主义国家中围绕气候变化的作用。此外，我们将教育作为跨国政治和意识形态因素的调节因素进行调查。我们认为，与西欧和后共产主义国家相比，英语国家的政治和意识形态两极分化在塑造气候变化态度方面的作用是特殊的。使用2010年ISSP环境模块中20个国家的数据，我们发现，政党背景和自由市场意识形态对气候变化危险和重要性认知的影响在英语国家最强，在西欧国家较小，仅限于后共产主义国家。此外，英语国家的教育放缓幅度最大。我们的结果表明，在政治两极分化和气候变化态度方面，英语国家内部发生了一些例外情况。
Recent scholarship has thoroughly documented climate change attitudes within the majority of the English-speaking countries of the USA, the UK, Canada, and Australia. In these nations, political identity is widely recognized as a uniquely powerful predictor of climate change attitudes and, at least in the USA, several studies have found that education moderates the effect of political identity. The cross-national dynamics of climate change attitudes and political identity are not well-characterized, particularly in nations with a history of state socialism. In this manuscript, we consider the role of political and free market ideological polarization around climate change within Anglophone, Western European, and post-Communist states. Further, we investigate education as a moderator of political and ideological factors cross-nationally. We suggest that, in comparison to Western European and post-Communist states, the role of political and ideological polarization in Anglophone states is exceptional in shaping climate change attitudes. Using data for 20 countries in the 2010 ISSP Environmental Module, we find that the effect of party affiliation and free market ideology on the perception of climate change’s danger and importance is strongest in Anglophone states, more modest in Western European countries, and limited within post-Communist states. Further, education moderates most intensely in Anglophone states. Our results suggest that there is something exceptional occurring within Anglophone states with regard to political polarization and climate change attitudes.
DOI：
10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2011.03.001
发表时间：
2011-08
影响因子：
8.9
作者：
W. Poortinga;A. Spence;L. Whitmarsh;S. Capstick;N. Pidgeon
通讯作者：
W. Poortinga;A. Spence;L. Whitmarsh;S. Capstick;N. Pidgeon
影响因子：
5.5
作者：
Hamilton, Lawrence C.;Saito, Kei
通讯作者：
Saito, Kei