Executive summary: Environmentalism in the United States is unusually partisan compared to other issues, other countries, and its own history, suggesting that this partisanship is not inevitable but rather the result of contingent choices by individual decision makers.
Key points:
Environmentalism is one of the most partisan issues in the US, with larger partisan gaps than most other political issues.
The US has a much larger partisan gap on environmentalism than any other surveyed country, even those with similar levels of overall partisanship.
Environmentalism was a bipartisan issue in the US as recently as the 1980s, with the partisan gap emerging in the 1990s and 2000s.
The partisanship of environmentalism in the US cannot be fully explained by broad structural or ideological factors consistent across countries and time periods.
The unusual partisanship of US environmentalism is likely due to contingent choices by individual decision makers rather than inevitable trends.
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Executive summary: Environmentalism in the United States is unusually partisan compared to other issues, other countries, and its own history, suggesting that this partisanship is not inevitable but rather the result of contingent choices by individual decision makers.
Key points:
Environmentalism is one of the most partisan issues in the US, with larger partisan gaps than most other political issues.
The US has a much larger partisan gap on environmentalism than any other surveyed country, even those with similar levels of overall partisanship.
Environmentalism was a bipartisan issue in the US as recently as the 1980s, with the partisan gap emerging in the 1990s and 2000s.
The partisanship of environmentalism in the US cannot be fully explained by broad structural or ideological factors consistent across countries and time periods.
The unusual partisanship of US environmentalism is likely due to contingent choices by individual decision makers rather than inevitable trends.
This comment was auto-generated by the EA Forum Team. Feel free to point out issues with this summary by replying to the comment, and contact us if you have feedback.