Beyond the left–right cleavage: Exploring American political choice           space

Hinich, Melvin J.; Liu, Xinsheng; Vedlitz, Arnold; Lindsey, Charles

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“…In contrast, rightists generally prefer a free-market economy and are hence less supportive of market-based environmental policy tools, but they are also less prone to prioritizing environmental issues and concerns in general (e.g. Dunlap and McCright 2008, Hinich et al 2013, Liu et al 2014, Hamilton and Saito 2015, McCright et al 2016. Most research on the effect of ideology on support for environmental policy and environmental protection finds that such support tends to be stronger among people who are more left-oriented (e.g.…”

Section: Social Dilemmas and Pro-environmental Policy Measuresmentioning

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The contingent effects of environmental concern and ideology: institutional context and people’s willingness to pay environmental taxes

Davidovic

Harring

Jagers

2019

Environmental Politics

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Environmental taxes are often argued to be key to more effective environmental protection. People's willingness to pay such taxes in contexts with varying levels of quality of government (QoG) is investigated. Applying multilevel analyses on data from the International Social Survey Programme (ISSP) and the QoG Institute, links between environmental concern, ideology, and QoG are explored. The results show that people who state that they are concerned about environmental issues and live in high QoG countries are more willing than people in low QoG countries to pay environmental taxes. Moreover, people in low QoG countries holding leftist political value orientations are less willing to pay environmental taxes than rightists and other value groups. Environmental concern and leftist political ideology are more important drivers of public support for environmental taxes in high QoG countries than in low QoG countries.

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Section: Social Dilemmas and Pro-environmental Policy Measuresmentioning

confidence: 99%

The contingent effects of environmental concern and ideology: institutional context and people’s willingness to pay environmental taxes

Davidovic

Harring

Jagers

2019

Environmental Politics

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“…This group of variables includes general political orientations such as party identification, political ideology, and other attitudes about the general political system and principles that guide all policy domains (rather than those specific to singular policy domains). Functioning as political lenses and motivated reasoning mechanisms (Rudolph, ; Taber & Lodge, ), these PIP variables have been found in many studies to be important individual‐level political factors that predict citizens' policy preferences and choices across a wide range of issues (e.g., Druckman & Bolsen, ; Hinich, Liu, Vedlitz, & Lindsey, ; Leiserowitz, ; Mumpower, Liu, & Vedlitz, ; Mumpower, Shi, Stoutenborough, & Vedlitz, ; Stoutenborough et al, ):

PC = f true(SES + PIP true)

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A Micro Model of Problem Definition and Policy Choice: Issue Image, Issue Association, and Policy Support of Power Plants

Liu¹,

Robinson²,

Vedlitz³

2017

Policy Studies Journal

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Past research on problem definition and public policy primarily focuses on the macro‐system level. In this study, we propose a micro model of problem definition and policy choice at the individual level. We argue that while individual citizens' problem definitions and policy preferences are rooted in and filtered through their predisposition characteristics (such as socioeconomic status, political orientation, and informational base), their policy choices also strongly depend on how they define public issues, particularly how they perceive the image of an issue at hand and how they associate the issue with other public issues. Our empirical analyses, based on data from a national public survey on energy and power plant issues, support the key propositions derived from our theoretical model. Key contributions to and implications for policy studies are discussed in conclusion.

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“…Other possible reasons for why two political parties differ on their positions on environmental issues can be found in the issue ownership theory (Petrocik, 1996;Petrocik, Benoit, & Hansen, 2003). Republicans generally tend to hold unfavorable views toward pro-environmentalist efforts and many of them have a hostile stance on global warming and climate change (Dunlap, Xiao, & McCright, 2001;Liu, Vedlitz, & Shi, 2014;McCright & Dunlap, 2003, 2011Mooney, 2005;Hinich, Liu, Vedlitz, & Lindsey, 2013;Wood & Vedlitz, 2007). In addition, institutional arrangements and agenda-setting procedures of Congress (e.g., selection of committee chair by the majority party and selection of most witnesses by committee chair) can reinforce different behavioral patterns between Democratand Republican-controlled Congresses.…”

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Analyzing Climate Change Debates in the U.S. Congress: Party Control and Mobilizing Networks

Park¹,

Liu²,

Vedlitz³

2014

Risk, Hazards &Amp; Crisis in Public Policy

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This study examines the differences, if any, in congressional hearings and testimonies on global climate change between Democrat-and Republican-controlled Congresses from 1976 to 2006. Using statistical and network analysis, we examine along party lines the connectedness among congressional committees, issue foci, and witness sectors. While the levels of attention to global climate change were similar between Democrat-and Republican-controlled Congresses, our findings reveal that Democratic Congresses tend to seek scientific evidence for global climate change and advance energy-regulatory policies with a focus on mobilizing environmentalists and scientific knowledge. In contrast, Republican Congresses tend to expand the climate change debates and conflicts by bringing in a diversified set of witnesses, focusing on the implications of international climate negotiations and economic impacts of policy changes, and mobilizing pro-industrial sectors and non-scientific opinions. Showing the differences in the networks that connect policy actors and mobilize various policy sources in congressional hearings and testimonies, we conclude that party control significantly affects the dynamics of climate change debates in the U.S. Congress for the given period.

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Beyond the left–right cleavage: Exploring American political choice space

Cited by 11 publications

References 31 publications

The contingent effects of environmental concern and ideology: institutional context and people’s willingness to pay environmental taxes

The contingent effects of environmental concern and ideology: institutional context and people’s willingness to pay environmental taxes

A Micro Model of Problem Definition and Policy Choice: Issue Image, Issue Association, and Policy Support of Power Plants

Analyzing Climate Change Debates in the U.S. Congress: Party Control and Mobilizing Networks

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