Dear Colleagues, I’m pleased to announce the publication of a new article that documents the growth of partisan polarization on climate change views among the U.S. public over the last two decades, from 1997 through this year. It updates the 2008 article McCright and I published in ENVIRONMENT, and finds growing polarization during the Obama years.
We draw upon recent political science work which casts a very somber view on the possibility of overcoming intense polarization due to the increase in partisan identity and negative partisanship. This leads us to conclude by highlighting the critical importance of the upcoming election, ending with, “Whether, and how, individual Americans vote this November may well be most consequential climate-related decision most of them will have ever taken.” Articles in ENVIRONMENT are written for a broad audience, and I think you will find the article to be very accessible to undergraduates should you wish to expose them to the latest data on how polarizing climate change has become in the U.S. Riley E. Dunlap, Aaron M. McCright and Jerrod Yarosh. 2016. “The Political Divide on Climate Change: Partisan Polarization Widens in the U.S.” Environment 58 (September/October):4-22. Taylor & Francis is kindly providing open access to the article for two months at this site: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00139157.2016.1208995 Riley Riley E. Dunlap Regents Professor of Sociology and Laurence L. and Georgia Ina Dresser Professor Department of Sociology Oklahoma State University Stillwater, OK 74078 405-744-6108 Co-Editor, Climate Change and Society: Sociological Perspectives Oxford University Press, 2015 (Report of the American Sociological Association's Task Force on Sociology and Global Climate Change) https://global.oup.com/academic/product/climate-change-and-society-9780199356119?q=International%20Political%20Sociology&lang=en&cc=us -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "gep-ed" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
