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Cheap and Clean

How Americans Think about Energy in the Age of Global Warming

By: Stephen Ansolabehere,David M. Konisky

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Cheap and Clean

How Americans Think about Energy in the Age of Global Warming

By: Stephen Ansolabehere,David M. Konisky

How Americans make energy choices, why they think locally (not globally), and how this can shape U.S. energy and climate change policy. How do Americans think about energy? Is the debate over fossil fuels highly partisan and ideological? Does public opinion about fossil fuels and alternative energies divide along the fault between red states and blue states? And how much do concerns about climate change weigh on their opinions? In Cheap and Clean, Stephen Ansolabehere and David Konisky show that Americans are more pragmatic than ideological in their opinions about energy alternatives, more unified than divided about their main concerns, and more local than global in their approach to energy. Drawing on extensive surveys they designed and conducted over the course of a decade (in conjunction with MIT's Energy Initiative), Ansolabehere and Konisky report that beliefs about the costs and environmental harms associated with particular fuels drive public opinions about energy. People approach energy choices as consumers, and what is most important to them is simply that energy be cheap and clean. Most of us want energy at low economic cost and with little social cost (that is, minimal health risk from pollution). The authors also find that although environmental concerns weigh heavily in people's energy preferences, these concerns are local and not global. Worries about global warming are less pressing to most than worries about their own city's smog and toxic waste. With this in mind, Ansolabehere and Konisky argue for policies that target both local pollutants and carbon emissions (the main source of global warming). The local and immediate nature of people's energy concerns can be the starting point for a new approach to energy and climate change policy.

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MIT Press

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0262529688

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9780262529686

Superfund's Future

What Will it Cost? : a Report to Congress

By: Katherine N. Probst,David M. Konisky

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Superfund's Future

What Will it Cost? : a Report to Congress

By: Katherine N. Probst,David M. Konisky

This volume presents the results of a study commissioned by Congress estimating the future costs of the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980, commonly known as the Superfund program. The study projects the cost of activities such as cleaning up sites on the EPA's National Priorities List, conducting emergency response and removal actions, performing five-year reviews, and administering the program. c. Book News Inc.

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330

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Resources for the Future

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1891853392

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9781891853395

Campaign Finance & American Democracy

What the Public Really Thinks and Why It Matters

By: David M. Primo,Jeffrey D. Milyo

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Campaign Finance & American Democracy

What the Public Really Thinks and Why It Matters

By: David M. Primo,Jeffrey D. Milyo

In recent decades, and particularly since the US Supreme Court’s controversial Citizens United decision, lawmakers and other elites have told Americans that stricter campaign finance laws are needed to improve faith in the elections process, increase trust in the government, and counter cynicism toward politics. But as David M. Primo and Jeffrey D. Milyo argue, politicians and the public alike should reconsider the conventional wisdom in light of surprising and comprehensive empirical evidence to the contrary. Primo and Milyo probe original survey data to determine Americans’ sentiments on the role of money in politics, what drives these sentiments, and why they matter. What Primo and Milyo find is that while many individuals support the idea of reform, they are also skeptical that reform would successfully limit corruption, which Americans believe stains almost every fiber of the political system. Moreover, support for campaign finance restrictions is deeply divided along party lines, reflecting the polarization of our times. Ultimately, Primo and Milyo contend, American attitudes toward money in politics reflect larger fears about the health of American democracy, fears that will not be allayed by campaign finance reform.

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279

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University of Chicago Press

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022671313X

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9780226713137

Campaigns from the Ground Up

State House Elections in a National Context

By: John S Klemanski,David A. Dulio,Michael Switalski

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Campaigns from the Ground Up

State House Elections in a National Context

By: John S Klemanski,David A. Dulio,Michael Switalski

Based on data from the most recent elections, this book examines state house races in four key states California, Texas, Michigan, and Virginia and creates simulations of campaign planning, strategizing, budgeting, fundraising, and winning in a variety of political contexts. The authors have not only researched and taught about these issues they have conducted campaigns, run for office, and served in government at every level from the local to the national. They have experience confronting questions of campaign ethics and crisis management, and they actively embrace social media in their work. Internet fundraising as well as campaign websites are among the many media subjects included. This is a book not just for candidates, campaign professionals, and students, but for all concerned citizens who want to understand the pathways of politics better.

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Routledge

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1317262859

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Cheap and Clean

How Americans Think about Energy in the Age of Global Warming

By: Stephen Ansolabehere,David M. Konisky

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How Americans Think about Energy in the Age of Global Warming

By: Stephen Ansolabehere,David M. Konisky

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Book's by David M. Konisky

Cheap and Clean

Cheap and Clean

Superfund's Future

Superfund's Future

Campaign Finance & American Democracy

Campaign Finance & American Democracy

Campaigns from the Ground Up

Campaigns from the Ground Up

Cheap and Clean

Cheap and Clean

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