DOI: 10.1007/s13412-019-00576-7
论文题名: Partisan strength and the politicization of global climate change: a re-examination of Schuldt, Roh, and Schwarz 2015
作者: Morin-Chassé A. ; Lachapelle E.
刊名: Journal of Environmental Studies and Sciences
ISSN: 21906483
出版年: 2020
卷: 10, 期: 1 语种: 英语
英文关键词: Environmental politics
; Global climate change
; Interaction effects
; Issue label
; Partisan attachment
; Partisan gap
; Polarization
Scopus关键词: climate change
; educational attainment
; environmental politics
; global climate
; global warming
; multivariate analysis
; regression analysis
; United States
英文摘要: In the USA, self-identified Republican supporters tend to be more skeptical about the existence and consequences of global climate change (GCC) than Democratic supporters. If this phenomenon is well established, discussions about the “partisan gap” often treat partisan groups as if they were two homogeneous blocks. In this article, we question this practice. According to theory, strong partisan identification (PID) puts pressure on partisans to hold beliefs that conform to elite discourse and to perceived in-group positions. Meanwhile, public opinion research on environmental issues offers reasons to expect greater heterogeneity among Republicans than among Democrats. This literature leads us to predict that strong Republicans will be more skeptical about GCC than Republican leaners, whereas among Democrats, PID strength will not be associated with greater confidence in the existence of GCC. Our study tests this hypothesis leveraging the characteristics of a unique dataset where strong partisans are purposively oversampled to facilitate group comparisons. Results from multivariate regression models support our prediction. Next, our study also examines how PID strength shapes more complex patterns found in the literature. Previous work has shown that, compared to Democrats, the views of Republicans are less correlated with educational attainment and more influenced by issue labeling (e.g., global warming vs climate change). Our study tests if PID strength also moderates these factors. This time, interaction models produce mixed results. Overall, our findings suggest that breaking down GCC beliefs by PID strength can reveal a more nuanced understanding of the differences between and within partisan groups. © 2019, AESS. Citation statistics:
资源类型: 期刊论文
标识符: http://119.78.100.158/handle/2HF3EXSE/158758
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作者单位: Bureau of Institutional Research, University of Montreal, 3333, Queen-Mary Road, Office 590, Montreal, H3V 1A1, Canada; Department of Political Science, University of Montreal, 3150 rue Jean-Brillant, Montreal, H3T 1N8, Canada
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Morin-Chassé A.,Lachapelle E.. Partisan strength and the politicization of global climate change: a re-examination of Schuldt, Roh, and Schwarz 2015[J]. Journal of Environmental Studies and Sciences,2020-01-01,10(1)