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DOI	10.1038/s41558-019-0621-7
	The development of partisan polarization over the Green New Deal
	Gustafson A.; Rosenthal S.A.; Ballew M.T.; Goldberg M.H.; Bergquist P.; Kotcher J.E.; Maibach E.W.; Leiserowitz A.
发表日期	2019
ISSN	1758678X
卷号	9 期号:12
英文摘要	In early 2019, a US climate change and economic renewal policy proposal called the Green New Deal (GND)1 rose from obscurity to national prominence in just four months. This situation created a natural field experiment in which to study the emergence of partisan polarization. Here, we report findings from two nationally representative surveys of registered US voters that measured familiarity with and support for the GND shortly before and after the issue entered the national spotlight. Initially, there was low public awareness of the GND but majority support for it across party lines. Four months later, voters had become much more familiar with the GND and partisan polarization had increased significantly due to a sharp decrease in support among Republicans. In fact, Republicans who had heard the most about the GND were the least likely to support it. In contrast, support for the GND remained high among Democrats, and did not vary substantially across degrees of familiarity. We also identify a likely mechanism: a ‘Fox News effect’. That is, among Republicans, Fox News viewing was a significant predictor of both familiarity with the GND and opposition to it, even when controlling for alternative explanations. © 2019, The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Limited.
语种	英语
来源期刊	Nature Climate Change
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/124288
作者单位	Yale Program on Climate Change Communication, Yale University, New Haven, CT, United States; Center for Climate Change Communication, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, United States
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Gustafson A.,Rosenthal S.A.,Ballew M.T.,et al. The development of partisan polarization over the Green New Deal[J],2019,9(12).
APA	Gustafson A..,Rosenthal S.A..,Ballew M.T..,Goldberg M.H..,Bergquist P..,...&Leiserowitz A..(2019).The development of partisan polarization over the Green New Deal.Nature Climate Change,9(12).
MLA	Gustafson A.,et al."The development of partisan polarization over the Green New Deal".Nature Climate Change 9.12(2019).