Policy Mood and Political Sophistication: Why Everybody Moves Mood

Enns, Peter K.; Kellstedt, Paul M.

doi:10.1017/s0007123408000227

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“…These measures present us with a significant divide between the political right and the political left. We also show that polarization in climate change concern has grown over the 13-year time period, and that these populations are not moving as "parallel publics" as previous literature suggests ( Kellstedt 2003, Enns andKellstedt 2008).…”

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A Macro Political Examination of the Partisan and Ideological Divide in Aggregate Public Concern over Climate Change in the U.S. between 2001 and 2013

Huxster

Carmichael

Brulle

2014

EMSD

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Recent individual level analyses have detailed a progressive polarization between political parties in public concern and understanding of climate change. These micro political analyses are limited by the data and time-scale available in the use of a single surveying organization and instrument. In this paper, we employ macro political analysis of all relevant polling data available on the Roper iPoll Database to develop reliable and valid measures of aggregate public concern over the issue of climate change across a 13-year time-period. Aggregate public opinion is analyzed and separated by political ideology and party identification using Stimson"s (1999) method for pooling multiple polls. Through statistical analysis of six measures of aggregate public opinion trends, we find significant differences between trends in public concern across political and ideological lines, and find that the political right and political left Environmental Management and Sustainable Development ISSN 2164-7682 2015 www.macrothink.org/emsd 2 have not only become more polarized on the issue of climate change between 2001 and 2013, but that the populations are not moving as parallel publics as previous literature suggests they might.

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“…Stimson"s "Policy Mood" analysis and algorithm have been effectively applied to a number of topics in sociology and political science (Kellstedt 2003, Kellstedt et al 2008, Brulle 2013, Ramirez 2013, Krosnick 2006. There are several advantages of this aggregate approach over individual-level analyses.…”

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A Macro Political Examination of the Partisan and Ideological Divide in Aggregate Public Concern over Climate Change in the U.S. between 2001 and 2013

Huxster

Carmichael

Brulle

2014

EMSD

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“…The influence of mass media and journalism on policy in a number of arenas is also well established [44][45][46][47][48][49][50][51]. Perhaps nowhere is this influence more important than when journalists inform the public about hazards; for hazards both commonplace and rare, the mass media is typically the primary source of knowledge for the public [52].…”

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Nuclear Insurance Subsidies Cost from Post-Fukushima Accounting Based on Media Sources

Laureto

Pearce

2016

Sustainability

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Quantification of nuclear liability insurance is difficult without arbitrary liability caps; however, post-mortem calculations can be used to calculate insurance costs. This study analyzes the Fukushima (Daiichi) nuclear power plant disaster to quantify the cost per unit electricity ($/kWh) of nuclear energy from the lifetime of the plant after accounting for the true cost of the liability needed to cover the damages from the nuclear disaster determined from news reports. These costs are then compared to the cost of electricity currently paid by Japanese consumers, and then are aggregated to determine the indirect subsidy for nuclear power providers in both Japan and the USA. The results show that the reported costs of the Fukushima nuclear disaster are $20-525 billion, which results in a real insurance cost from the lifetime of electricity produced at the plants between $0.22-5.78/kWh. These values are far higher than the current insurance costs by Japanese law of $0.01/kWh and even the total costs consumers pay for electricity. Although the spread in the input costs is large and the reported metrics are incomplete, the nuclear insurance subsidy is clearly substantial in Japan and in the USA. Ideally, energy sources should be economically sustainable without the need for a government insurance subsidy. For the electricity market to function effectively and efficiently in all other countries using nuclear power, the insurance costs should be reported accurately and included in nuclear electricity costs without arbitrary government liability caps.

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“…Page and Shapiro examine differences across subgroups based on political education. See also Althaus 2003;Enns and Kellstedt 2008;Erikson, MacKuen, and Stimson 2002. shift spending preferences to the left (larger or more active government) or right (smaller or less active government) according to the expectations presented in Table 1. Though employees observe specific firm-level characteristics, we cannot directly observe the microeconomic conditions facing citizens.…”

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Does Economic Globalization Influence the US Policy Mood?: A Study of US Public Sentiment, 1956–2011

Owen¹,

Quinn²

2014

Brit. J. Polit. Sci.

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Does increasing economic globalization influence aggregate policy mood toward the role and size of government in the United States? Drawing on insights from international political economy scholarship, this article suggests that the impact of trade on aggregate preferences will depend on citizens’ exposure to trade. It hypothesizes that employees of import-competing, export-oriented and multinational firms will adopt a ‘compensatory’ model in which higher levels of imports (exports) lead to a liberal (conservative) shift in policy preferences for more (less) government. It distinguishes between intrafirm and non-intrafirm trade flows. It measures policy mood using Stimson's ‘Mood’, and estimates Error Correction and Instrumental Variable models. Trade flows strongly influence Mood in a manner consistent with hypotheses drawn from international political economy and heterogeneous firms (or ‘new new’) trade theory.

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Policy Mood and Political Sophistication: Why Everybody Moves Mood

Cited by 107 publications

References 10 publications

A Macro Political Examination of the Partisan and Ideological Divide in Aggregate Public Concern over Climate Change in the U.S. between 2001 and 2013

A Macro Political Examination of the Partisan and Ideological Divide in Aggregate Public Concern over Climate Change in the U.S. between 2001 and 2013

Nuclear Insurance Subsidies Cost from Post-Fukushima Accounting Based on Media Sources

Does Economic Globalization Influence the US Policy Mood?: A Study of US Public Sentiment, 1956–2011

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