Motivated Localism
Polarization and Public Support for Intergovernmental Carbon Reduction Efforts
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6403765 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Aaron Deslatte (0000-0001-5518-3949, Indiana University Bloomington, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 59 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 1665-1699 |
| Publication date | 2023-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Urban Affairs Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1078-0874 • E-ISSN: 1552-8332 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/10780874221109462 |
| OpenAlex | W4283834691 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 7 |
| References cited | 87 |
Climate challenges in the 21st century have given rise to re-thinking the role of local governments in confronting larger-than-local challenges. However, anthropogenic climate change has become a weaponized partisan issue, and surveys show a growing partisan tribalization over climate science. Empowering local governments to take broader climate and sustainability actions is one avenue for addressing this. This study tests a localism hypothesis, which holds that citizens will be more supportive of local climate efforts when the benefits are internalized by the community. This deference to locally directed actions springs from the predisposition for decentralization of political authority widely attributed to localism, a directional goal of motivated reasoners which may feed into social identity, cohesion and shared community values. Through three survey experiments, the study finds citizens are more likely to favor continuation of local climate-related programs in the face of high performance and politicization at the federal level
Climate change · Community cohesion · Decentralization · Deference · Localism · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Climate Change Communication and Perception · Electoral Systems and Political Participation · Law · Public Administration · Social Media and Politics
Climate moves
The Transaction Costs of the Administrative Presidency
Beyond Nimby-ism
Do Citizens Have Views about Single Market Governance
Does Outsourcing Reduce Public Scrutiny Toward Elected Officials
Social Context and Local Political Knowledge
Public perceptions of for-profit and nonprofit affordable rental housing providers
A bayesian approach for behavioral public administration
Precise performance
The Rationalizing Voter
Vulnerability and Capacity
Self-Regulation of Cognitive Inference and Decision Processes
The Partisan Brain
Global climate policy
The Rise of “Localism” and Civic Identity in Post-handover Hong Kong
Symbolic or Substantive Policy? Measuring the Extent of Local Commitment to Climate Protection
Neural Bases of Motivated Reasoning
Inside the Turk
Amazon's Mechanical Turk
Performance determinants show European cities are delivering on climate mitigation
Covenant of mayors signatories leading the way towards 1.5 degree global warming pathway
An MTurk Crisis? Shifts in Data Quality and the Impact on Study Results
A Research Agenda for Climate Change Communication and Public Opinion
The US News Media, Polarization on Climate Change, and Pathways to Effective Communication
Polarizing news? Representations of threat and efficacy in leading US newspapers’ coverage of climate change
Democracy for Realists
Information Avoidance
Segregation by Design
Are samples drawn from Mechanical Turk valid for research on political ideology
Populism, Localism and Environmental Politics
Do partisanship and politicization undermine the impact of a scientific consensus message about climate change
Framing, partisan predispositions, and public opinion on climate change
Adaptation to Resilience Planning
Urban Reform and Its Consequences
Making meaningful commitments
Human Interest or Hard Numbers? Experiments on Citizens’ Selection, Exposure, and Recall of Performance Information
Context matters
Pragmatic Municipalism
Escaping Jurassic Government
Bureaucratic reputation in the eyes of citizens
Red, white, and blue enough to be green
Is psychology suffering from a replication crisis? What does “failure to replicate” really mean
State-Level Influences on Community-Level Municipal Sustainable Energy Policies
Incentives and Austerity
Do “Non-Partisan” Municipal Politicians Match the Partisanship of Their Constituents
Exploring the Trade-Offs Local Governments Make in the Pursuit of Economic Growth and Equity
Progressive Urbanism in Small Towns
Hierarchies of Need in Sustainable Development
What Does Sustainability Mean to City Officials
Partisan Perceptual Bias and the Information Environment
Hot Cognition or Cool Consideration? Testing the Effects of Motivated Reasoning on Political Decision Making
Public Opinion Toward Intergovernmental Policy Responsibilities
An Experimental Test of How Americans Think about Federalism
American Federalism in an Era of Partisan Polarization
Public Preferences for Environmental Policy Responsibility
Live Bureaucrats and Dead Public Servants
The Performance-Trust Link
Perceptions of Public and Private Performance
A Multiple–Indicator Approach to Municipal Service Evaluation
Sustainability as a Conceptual Focus for Public Administration
Promoting the Utilization of Performance Measures in Public Organizations
Interpreting Performance Information
Operational Ideology and Party Identification
Climate‐Science Communication and the Measurement Problem
When and How Different Motives Can Drive Motivated Political Reasoning
The Influence of Partisan Motivated Reasoning on Public Opinion
Evaluating Online Labor Markets for Experimental Research
Performance Goal Achievement in Fiscal Federalism
The limits of localism
Don't Blame the Bureaucracy
Positivity and Negativity Dominance in Citizen Assessments of Intergovernmental Sustainability Performance
Bayesian Analytical Methods
What Do We Talk About When We Talk About Performance? Dialogue Theory and Performance Budgeting
How Do Elected Officials Evaluate Performance? Goal Preferences, Governance Preferences, and the Process of Goal Reprioritization
Motivated Reasoning about Public Performance
Citizen satisfaction under changing political leadership
Climate Change
Motivated Skepticism in the Evaluation of Political Beliefs
The Impact of Climate Change–Related Imagery and Text on Public Opinion and Behavior Change
The Impact of Perceived Scientific and Social Consensus on Scientific Beliefs
Political ideology as motivated social cognition
The Need for Knowledge-Based Journalism in Politicized Science Debates
The Geography of Inequality
The case for motivated reasoning
Framing Public Opinion in Competitive Democracies
Reweaving the fringe
| Unique citing works | 7 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 3,5 |
| Citation span | 2024 - 2025 (2) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 7 |