Chenyang Xiao

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined partisan and ideological differences in public support for environmentalism in the United States and found that environmentalism is a divisive issue in American political life, especially among Republicans.

TL;DR: This article examined the influence that perception of the scientific agreement on global warming has on the public's beliefs about global warming and support for government action to reduce emissions, finding that misperception of scientific agreement among climate scientists is associated with lower levels of support for climate policy and beliefs that action should be taken to deal with global warming.

TL;DR: Analysis of General Social Survey data from 1974 to 2012 finds that there has been significant partisan and ideological polarization on support for environmental spending since 1992-consistent with the expectations of party sorting theory.

TL;DR: This paper used belief systems perspective and confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) to test a comprehensive conceptualization of environmental concern and found that even among the general public, attitudes toward environmental issues are relatively well organized into a broad and coherent sense of concern for the environment.

TL;DR: Research on environmental concern has consistently found that women have modestly stronger pro-environmental values, beliefs, and attitudes than do men as discussed by the authors, and that women tend to be more environmentally aware than men.