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Riley E Dunlap - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Climate Change Denial Books and Conservative Think Tanks: Exploring the Connection
American Behavioral Scientist, 2013Co-Authors: Riley E Dunlap, Peter J. JacquesAbstract:The Conservative Movement and especially its think tanks play a critical role in denying the reality and significance of anthropogenic global warming (AGW), especially by manufacturing uncertainty over climate science. Books denying AGW are a crucial means of attacking climate science and scientists, and we examine the links between Conservative think tanks (CTTs) and 108 climate change denial books published through 2010. We find a strong link, albeit noticeably weaker for the growing number of self-published denial books. We also examine the national origins of the books and the academic backgrounds of their authors or editors, finding that with the help of American CTTs climate change denial has spread to several other nations and that an increasing portion of denial books are produced by individuals with no scientific training. It appears that at least 90% of denial books do not undergo peer review, allowing authors or editors to recycle scientifically unfounded claims that are then amplified by the Conservative Movement, media, and political elites.
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Anti-reflexivity The American Conservative Movement’s Success in Undermining Climate Science and Policy
Theory Culture & Society, 2010Co-Authors: Aaron M. Mccright, Riley E DunlapAbstract:The American Conservative Movement is a force of anti-reflexivity insofar as it attacks two key elements of reflexive modernization: the environmental Movement and environmental impact science. Learning from its mistakes in overtly attacking environmental regulations in the early 1980s, this counterMovement has subsequently exercised a more subtle form of power characterized by non-decision-making. We examine the Conservative Movement’s efforts to undermine climate science and policy in the USA over the last two decades by using this second dimension of power. The Conservative Movement has employed four non-decision-making techniques to challenge the legitimacy of climate science and prevent progress in policy-making. We argue that reflexive modernization scholars should focus more attention on similar forces of anti-reflexivity that continue to shape the overall direction of our social, political and economic order, and the life chances of many citizens. Indeed, better understanding of the forces and effectiveness of anti-reflexivity may very well be crucial for societal resilience and adaptation, especially in the face of global environmental problems like climate change.
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anti reflexivity the american Conservative Movement s success in undermining climate science and policy
Theory Culture & Society, 2010Co-Authors: Aaron M. Mccright, Riley E DunlapAbstract:The American Conservative Movement is a force of anti-reflexivity insofar as it attacks two key elements of reflexive modernization: the environmental Movement and environmental impact science. Learning from its mistakes in overtly attacking environmental regulations in the early 1980s, this counterMovement has subsequently exercised a more subtle form of power characterized by non-decision-making. We examine the Conservative Movement’s efforts to undermine climate science and policy in the USA over the last two decades by using this second dimension of power. The Conservative Movement has employed four non-decision-making techniques to challenge the legitimacy of climate science and prevent progress in policy-making. We argue that reflexive modernization scholars should focus more attention on similar forces of anti-reflexivity that continue to shape the overall direction of our social, political and economic order, and the life chances of many citizens. Indeed, better understanding of the forces and effectiveness of anti-reflexivity may very well be crucial for societal resilience and adaptation, especially in the face of global environmental problems like climate change.
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defeating kyoto the Conservative Movement s impact on u s climate change policy
Social Problems, 2003Co-Authors: Aaron Mccright, Riley E DunlapAbstract:In this article, we argue that a major reason the United States failed to ratify the Kyoto Protocol to ameliorate global warming is the opposition of the American Conservative Movement, a key segment of the anti-environmental counter-Movement. We examine how the Conservative Movement mobilized between 1990 and 1997 to construct the "non-problematicity" of global warming. After we describe how Conservative think tanks mobilized to challenge the global warming claims of mainstream climate science, we examine how these counterMovement organizations aligned themselves with prominent American climate change skeptics known for their staunch criticism of mainstream climate research and their affiliations with the fossil fuels industry. We then examine how the efforts of these Conservative think tanks were enhanced by the shift in the political opportunity structure created by the 1994 Republican takeover of Congress. This study demonstrates how a powerful counterMovement effectively challenged the environmental community's definition of global warming as a social problem and blocked the passage of any significant climate change policy.
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challenging global warming as a social problem an analysis of the Conservative Movement s counter claims
Social Problems, 2000Co-Authors: Aaron M. Mccright, Riley E DunlapAbstract:The sociological literature on global environmental change emphasizes the processes by which the problem of global warming is socially constructed. However, the opposing efforts to construct the “non-problematicity” of global warming advanced by the Conservative Movement are largely ignored. Utilizing recent work on framing processes in the social Movements literature and claims-making from the social problems literature, this paper analyzes the counter-claims promoted by the Conservative Movement between 1990 and 1997 as it mobilized to challenge the legitimacy of global warming as a social problem. A thematic content analysis of publications circulated on the web sites of prominent Conservative think tanks reveals three major counter-claims. First, the Movement criticized the evidentiary basis of global warming as weak, if not entirely wrong. Second, the Movement argued that global warming will have substantial benefits if it occurs. Third, the Movement warned that proposed action to ameliorate global warming would do more harm than good. In short, the Conservative Movement asserted that, while the science of global warming appears to be growing more and more uncertain, the harmful effects of global warming policy are becoming increasingly certain . In order to better understand the controversy over global warming, future research should pay attention to the influence of the Conservative Movement by identifying the crucial roles of Conservative foundations, Conservative think tanks, and sympathetic “skeptic” scientists in undermining the growing scientific consensus over the reality of global warming.
Aaron M. Mccright - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Anti-reflexivity The American Conservative Movement’s Success in Undermining Climate Science and Policy
Theory Culture & Society, 2010Co-Authors: Aaron M. Mccright, Riley E DunlapAbstract:The American Conservative Movement is a force of anti-reflexivity insofar as it attacks two key elements of reflexive modernization: the environmental Movement and environmental impact science. Learning from its mistakes in overtly attacking environmental regulations in the early 1980s, this counterMovement has subsequently exercised a more subtle form of power characterized by non-decision-making. We examine the Conservative Movement’s efforts to undermine climate science and policy in the USA over the last two decades by using this second dimension of power. The Conservative Movement has employed four non-decision-making techniques to challenge the legitimacy of climate science and prevent progress in policy-making. We argue that reflexive modernization scholars should focus more attention on similar forces of anti-reflexivity that continue to shape the overall direction of our social, political and economic order, and the life chances of many citizens. Indeed, better understanding of the forces and effectiveness of anti-reflexivity may very well be crucial for societal resilience and adaptation, especially in the face of global environmental problems like climate change.
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anti reflexivity the american Conservative Movement s success in undermining climate science and policy
Theory Culture & Society, 2010Co-Authors: Aaron M. Mccright, Riley E DunlapAbstract:The American Conservative Movement is a force of anti-reflexivity insofar as it attacks two key elements of reflexive modernization: the environmental Movement and environmental impact science. Learning from its mistakes in overtly attacking environmental regulations in the early 1980s, this counterMovement has subsequently exercised a more subtle form of power characterized by non-decision-making. We examine the Conservative Movement’s efforts to undermine climate science and policy in the USA over the last two decades by using this second dimension of power. The Conservative Movement has employed four non-decision-making techniques to challenge the legitimacy of climate science and prevent progress in policy-making. We argue that reflexive modernization scholars should focus more attention on similar forces of anti-reflexivity that continue to shape the overall direction of our social, political and economic order, and the life chances of many citizens. Indeed, better understanding of the forces and effectiveness of anti-reflexivity may very well be crucial for societal resilience and adaptation, especially in the face of global environmental problems like climate change.
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challenging global warming as a social problem an analysis of the Conservative Movement s counter claims
Social Problems, 2000Co-Authors: Aaron M. Mccright, Riley E DunlapAbstract:The sociological literature on global environmental change emphasizes the processes by which the problem of global warming is socially constructed. However, the opposing efforts to construct the “non-problematicity” of global warming advanced by the Conservative Movement are largely ignored. Utilizing recent work on framing processes in the social Movements literature and claims-making from the social problems literature, this paper analyzes the counter-claims promoted by the Conservative Movement between 1990 and 1997 as it mobilized to challenge the legitimacy of global warming as a social problem. A thematic content analysis of publications circulated on the web sites of prominent Conservative think tanks reveals three major counter-claims. First, the Movement criticized the evidentiary basis of global warming as weak, if not entirely wrong. Second, the Movement argued that global warming will have substantial benefits if it occurs. Third, the Movement warned that proposed action to ameliorate global warming would do more harm than good. In short, the Conservative Movement asserted that, while the science of global warming appears to be growing more and more uncertain, the harmful effects of global warming policy are becoming increasingly certain . In order to better understand the controversy over global warming, future research should pay attention to the influence of the Conservative Movement by identifying the crucial roles of Conservative foundations, Conservative think tanks, and sympathetic “skeptic” scientists in undermining the growing scientific consensus over the reality of global warming.
Aaron Mccright - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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defeating kyoto the Conservative Movement s impact on u s climate change policy
Social Problems, 2003Co-Authors: Aaron Mccright, Riley E DunlapAbstract:In this article, we argue that a major reason the United States failed to ratify the Kyoto Protocol to ameliorate global warming is the opposition of the American Conservative Movement, a key segment of the anti-environmental counter-Movement. We examine how the Conservative Movement mobilized between 1990 and 1997 to construct the "non-problematicity" of global warming. After we describe how Conservative think tanks mobilized to challenge the global warming claims of mainstream climate science, we examine how these counterMovement organizations aligned themselves with prominent American climate change skeptics known for their staunch criticism of mainstream climate research and their affiliations with the fossil fuels industry. We then examine how the efforts of these Conservative think tanks were enhanced by the shift in the political opportunity structure created by the 1994 Republican takeover of Congress. This study demonstrates how a powerful counterMovement effectively challenged the environmental community's definition of global warming as a social problem and blocked the passage of any significant climate change policy.
Heather L. Ondercin - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Explaining the Dynamics between the Women's Movement and the Conservative Movement in the United States
Social Forces, 2016Co-Authors: Lee Ann Banaszak, Heather L. OndercinAbstract:We examine the causes of Movement and counterMovement mobilization, focusing specifically on the effect that the national Movements have on each other by responding directly to mobilization and indirectly through their policy successes. We discuss the mechanisms by which national Movements respond to each other, and we examine the influence of political parties and social, political, and economic changes for women. We analyze these relationships using a Poisson Autoregressive (PAR(ρ)) estimator, which is uniquely designed to model both the time dependence and the count distributions, on quarterly time series of feminist, anti-feminist, pro-choice, and anti-abortion events. Results show that Movements and counterMovements respond to each other and that anti-feminist Movements mobilize in response to national policy change and societal change. The results suggest that many quantitative analyses of women’s Movements may be misspecified and that feminist mobilization does not always abate during Conservative backlash.
Seth Wiener - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Creating the Right Reality: Communication Message Strategies and the Republican Party:
Cultural Studies ↔ Critical Methodologies, 2008Co-Authors: H.l. Goodall, Seth WienerAbstract:This critical essay explores the parallels between the communicative strategies and methods of totalitarian Movements and those of the modern American Conservative Movement. The Origins of Totalitarianism by Hannah Arendt (1968) serves as the standard by which the authors investigate the properties of such strategies. The authors find that the Conservative Movement in general and the Republican Party specifically, though not totalitarian, exhibit numerous common characteristics in the sphere of communication such as the suspension of reality, propaganda techniques, and the use of Movement opinion to subvert, transform, and replace fact. Through a commitment to an independent press and civic responsibility, the authors believe it is possible to counter these effects and preserve a society where the free exchange of ideas and the freedom of thought are not threatened by rigid doctrines parading as objective facts.