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Public opinion and special interests in American environmental politics
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| Titel: | Public opinion and special interests in American environmental politics/ E. Grieg |
| Format: | E-Book |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
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Zürich
CER-ETH - Center of Economic Research at ETH Zurich
[2021]
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Center of Economic Research: Working papers of the Center of Economic Research at ETH Zurich ; 21, 349 (April 2021)
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| Quelle: | Verbunddaten SWB Lizenzfreie Online-Ressourcen |
| Zusammenfassung: | To shed light on the political inertia around environmental legislation, I study the response of US senators to public opinion while controlling for special interest pressure. I combine data on public opinion (PO) on climate change - estimated by multilevel regression with poststratification - with campaign contributions from the extractive industries to indicate special interest (SI) influence, and use senator fixed effects, instrumental variables and the timing of senate elections for identification. PO has a strong impact on environmental legislation. The effects are different for the two parties: Republicans react to PO in election cycles, whereas Democrats are responsive through their whole term. The responsiveness of elected officials to environmental opinion is surprising: while Americans often favour environmental regulation in general, they tend to consider it as of low importance. I discuss possible explanations. |
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| Umfang: | 1 Online-Ressource (circa 36 Seiten); Illustrationen |