The American Public's Energy Choice
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9685773 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Stephen Ansolabehere (0000-0001-5240-9084, STEPHEN ANSOLABEHERE, a Fellow of the American Academy since 2007, is Professor of Government at Harvard University., corresponding author), David M Konisky (0000-0002-1146-3938, DAVID M. KONISKY is an Assistant Professor at the Georgetown Public Policy Institute.) |
| Year | 2012 |
| Volume | 141 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 61-71 |
| Publication date | 2012-04-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Daedalus (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0011-5266 • E-ISSN: 1548-6192 |
| Publisher | MIT Press - Journals (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1162/daed_a_00146 |
| OpenAlex | W2058479991 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 8 |
Public opinion about energy can be understood in a unified framework. First, people evaluate key attributes of energy sources, particularly a fuel's cost and environmental harms. Americans, for example, view coal as relatively inexpensive but harmful, natural gas as less harmful but more expensive, and wind as inexpensive and not harmful. Second, people place different weights on the economic and environmental attributes associated with energy production, which helps explain why some fuels are more popular than others. Americans' attitudes toward energy are driven more by beliefs about environmental harms than by perceived economic costs. In addition, attitudes about energy sources are largely unrelated to views about global warming. These findings suggest that a politically palatable way to reduce greenhouse gas emissions is through regulation of traditional pollutants associated with fossil fuels, rather than a wholly new carbon policy
Business · Climate change · Coal · Economics · Energy (signal processing · Energy policy · Energy source · Environmental economics · Fossil fuel · Global warming · Greenhouse gas · Natural gas · Natural resource economics · Political science · Politics · Public opinion · Renewable energy · Waste management · Wind power · Climate Change Communication and Perception · Ecology · Engineering · Environmental Education and Sustainability · Law · Social Acceptance of Renewable Energy
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| Unique citing works | 8 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0.67 |
| Citation span | 2014 - 2025 (12) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 8 |