Public Support for Pro-environment and Environment- Critical Movements
With environmental protests on the rise, we ask: how do they affect support for pro-environment and environment-critical movements? We answer this question using evidence from two studies—a survey experiment and media content analysis—conducted in the Netherlands, a leading country in the green tran...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2025 |
| País: | España |
| Institución: | IE |
| Repositorio: | Repositorio IE |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:repositorio.ie.edu:20.500.14417/3977 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://doi.org/10.1017/S0007123425101063 https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14417/3977 https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/british-journal-of-political-science/article/public-support-for-proenvironment-and-environmentcritical-movements/F32C5F701D8904C5339EB30276B88866 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Protests public opinion environmental politics media bias protest movements 59 Ciencia Política ODS 10 - Reducción de las desigualdades |
| Sumario: | With environmental protests on the rise, we ask: how do they affect support for pro-environment and environment-critical movements? We answer this question using evidence from two studies—a survey experiment and media content analysis—conducted in the Netherlands, a leading country in the green transition. Our experimental findings reveal an asymmetric bias in public support for protests. For the same protest action, public support is higher for environment-critical movements compared to pro-environment ones. This bias is most pronounced among right-leaning individuals with low education and low trust in science and politics. Our content analysis traces the bias back to newspaper reporting. While attention to protest groups is balanced across tabloid and broadsheet newspapers, tabloid reporting is more negative about pro-environment movements. These results highlight an important aspect of the backlash against environmental policies: a bias against pro-environment movements within parts of the public and media. |
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