It's political: How the salience of one's political identity changes climate change beliefs and policy support |
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| Institution: | 1. UWA Business School, University of Western Australia, Crawley, WA 6009, Australia;2. Institute for Social Science Research, University of Queensland, St Lucia, Q 4072, Australia;1. Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Telegrafenberg, 14412 Potsdam, Germany;2. KfW Development Bank, Palmengarten Str. 5-9, 60325 Frankfurt, Germany;1. School of Psychology, The University of Queensland, St Lucia, Queensland, 4072, Australia;2. Institute for Social Science Research, The University of Queensland, Australia;1. University of Michigan, United States;2. University of California – Davis, United States;3. National Bureau of Economic Research, United States;1. Geography, University of Exeter, Amory Building, Rennes Drive, Exeter EX4 4RJ, UK;2. CSIRO, Brisbane, Australia;1. Department of Sociology and Environmental Science and Policy Program, Michigan State University, 509 East Circle Drive, Room 316, East Lansing, MI 48824, USA;2. Lyman Briggs College, Department of Sociology, and Environmental Science and Policy Program, Michigan State University, 919 East Shaw Lane, Room E-35, East Lansing, MI 48825, USA;3. Department of Sociology, Oklahoma State University, 439 Murray, Stillwater, OK 74078, USA |
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| Abstract: | Previous research has demonstrated a striking difference in climate change beliefs and policy support between people who identify with the right-wing of politics and with the left-wing of politics. But are we destined to continue with this divergence? We suggest that there is movement around these differences based on the politicization of climate change and we conducted two experimental studies with 126 and 646 people, respectively, to examine this effect. We found that those people whose political identity was made salient were less likely to believe in an anthropogenic cause of climate change and less likely to support government climate change policies than those whose identity was not made salient; particularly when those people were aligned with the right-wing of politics. The results demonstrate the importance of the salience of one's political identity in determining attitudes and beliefs even for scientific facts such as climate change. Our research also identifies some ways forward in dealing with climate change-based on depoliticizing the issue. |
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| Keywords: | Climate change beliefs Policy support Political identity Identification |
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