@article{be4a39c929634cafa2ccba2768198b2d,
title = "The politicisation of climate change attitudes in Europe",
abstract = "Do voters for different parties have distinct climate attitudes because of their positions on other issues? With European Social Survey (ESS) data, we find that in Western (but not Central and Eastern) Europe there is a linkage between left-right self-placement and climate attitudes that cannot be accounted for by economic egalitarianism or liberal cultural attitudes. That linkage partly but not fully accounts for why voters for different party families have different beliefs and worries about climate change. Green party voters are more climate conscious than other voters with similar left-wing identities and political values. Not only Populist-Right but also mainstream Conservative party-family voters are less worried about climate change than their left-right orientations and other political values suggest. While Western European countries nearly all follow the same pattern, there is no consistent structure in Central and Eastern European countries. Across Europe non-voters are less worried about climate change than voters.",
keywords = "Climate change, Europe, Party families, Political values, Politicisation, Public opinion",
author = "Fisher, \{Stephen D.\} and John Kenny and Wouter Poortinga and Gisela B{\"o}hm and Linda Steg",
note = "Funding Information: For helpful comments and questions, we would like to thank anonymous reviewers of earlier versions, participants at the 2021 Environmental Social Sciences workshop organised by Nuffield College, the 2019 European Social Survey conference in Mannheim and the 2018 Elections, Public Opinion and Parties conference in London. JK would like to acknowledge funding provided by the European Research Council via the DeepDCarb Advanced Grant No. 882601 . The European Social Survey (ESS) is a European Research Infrastructure Consortium (ERIC). Participating countries contribute to the central coordination costs of the ESS ERIC as well as covering the costs of their own fieldwork and national coordination. We are grateful to all those and other organisations that facilitated the survey, and the ESS respondents. Funding Information: For helpful comments and questions, we would like to thank anonymous reviewers of earlier versions, participants at the 2021 Environmental Social Sciences workshop organised by Nuffield College, the 2019 European Social Survey conference in Mannheim and the 2018 Elections, Public Opinion and Parties conference in London. JK would like to acknowledge funding provided by the European Research Council via the DeepDCarb Advanced Grant No. 882601. The European Social Survey (ESS) is a European Research Infrastructure Consortium (ERIC). Participating countries contribute to the central coordination costs of the ESS ERIC as well as covering the costs of their own fieldwork and national coordination. We are grateful to all those and other organisations that facilitated the survey, and the ESS respondents. Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2022",
year = "2022",
month = oct,
doi = "10.1016/j.electstud.2022.102499",
language = "English",
volume = "79",
journal = "Electoral Studies",
issn = "0261-3794",
publisher = "ELSEVIER SCI LTD",
}