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UNH Research: On Environment, Republicans Closer to Independents Than Tea Party
http://www.unh.edu/news/releases/2014/12/bp02environment.cfm[font face=Serif]December 2, 2014
[font size=5]UNH Research: On Environment, Republicans Closer to Independents Than Tea Party[/font]
[font size=3]DURHAM, N.H. – Environmentalists dispirited by the Republicans’ dominance of the recent midterm elections can take heart: non-Tea Party Republicans’ views on science and environmental issues are closer to those of Independents than to Tea Party supporters. That’s the primary finding of new research by University of New Hampshire sociologists, published this week in the journal Environmental Politics.
“Across a range of science and environmental issues, non-Tea Party Republicans are more similar to Independents than they are to Tea Party supporters, and those divisions are surprisingly stable over the last four years,” says UNH professor of sociology Lawrence Hamilton, first author of the paper, titled “A four-party view of US environmental concern.”
While researchers – Hamilton a leader among them – have examined the interplay between education, political party and environmental concerns in recent years, this is the first study to separate out Tea Party supporters as a fourth party. Hamilton was surprised to find more significant divisions between Tea Party supporters and Republicans, and fewer divisions between non-Tea Party Republicans and Independents, on a range of questions about science and the environment.
The study also finds that Tea Party supporters with higher levels of education are less likely to trust scientists or accept scientific consensus on topics like evolution or climate change, which runs opposite to the positive effect education has on trust in science among Independents and Democrats.
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09644016.2014.976485[font size=5]UNH Research: On Environment, Republicans Closer to Independents Than Tea Party[/font]
[font size=3]DURHAM, N.H. – Environmentalists dispirited by the Republicans’ dominance of the recent midterm elections can take heart: non-Tea Party Republicans’ views on science and environmental issues are closer to those of Independents than to Tea Party supporters. That’s the primary finding of new research by University of New Hampshire sociologists, published this week in the journal Environmental Politics.
“Across a range of science and environmental issues, non-Tea Party Republicans are more similar to Independents than they are to Tea Party supporters, and those divisions are surprisingly stable over the last four years,” says UNH professor of sociology Lawrence Hamilton, first author of the paper, titled “A four-party view of US environmental concern.”
While researchers – Hamilton a leader among them – have examined the interplay between education, political party and environmental concerns in recent years, this is the first study to separate out Tea Party supporters as a fourth party. Hamilton was surprised to find more significant divisions between Tea Party supporters and Republicans, and fewer divisions between non-Tea Party Republicans and Independents, on a range of questions about science and the environment.
The study also finds that Tea Party supporters with higher levels of education are less likely to trust scientists or accept scientific consensus on topics like evolution or climate change, which runs opposite to the positive effect education has on trust in science among Independents and Democrats.
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