Replication Data for: Wildfire exposure increases pro-environment voting within Democratic but not Republican areas (doi:10.7910/DVN/OVEGLS)

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Replication Data for: Wildfire exposure increases pro-environment voting within Democratic but not Republican areas

doi:10.7910/DVN/OVEGLS

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2020-07-16

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HAZLETT, CHAD, 2020, "Replication Data for: Wildfire exposure increases pro-environment voting within Democratic but not Republican areas", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/OVEGLS, Harvard Dataverse, V1

Replication Data for: Wildfire exposure increases pro-environment voting within Democratic but not Republican areas

doi:10.7910/DVN/OVEGLS

HAZLETT, CHAD (University of California, Los Angeles)

Harvard Dataverse

HAZLETT, CHAD

HAZLETT, CHAD

2020-05-23

https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/OVEGLS

Social Sciences, climate, wildfire, environment, sensitivity analysis

One political barrier to climate reforms is the temporal mismatch between short-term policy costs and long-term policy benefits. Will public support for climate reforms increase as climate-related disasters make the short-term costs of inaction more salient? Leveraging variation in the timing of Californian wildfires, we evaluate how exposureto a climate-related hazard influences political behavior, rather than self-reported attitudes or behavioral intentions. We show that wildfires increased support for costly, climate-related ballot measures by 5 to 6 percentage points for those living within 5km of a recent wildfire, decaying to near zero beyond a distance of 15km. This effect is concentrated in Democratic-voting areas, and nearly zero in Republican-dominated areas. We conclude that experienced climate threats can enhance willingness-to-act but largely in places where voters are known to believe in climate change.

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HAZLETT, C., & MILDENBERGER, M. (2020). Wildfire Exposure Increases Pro-Environment Voting within Democratic but Not Republican Areas. American Political Science Review, 1-7.

https://doi.org/10.1017/S0003055420000441

HAZLETT, C., & MILDENBERGER, M. (2020). Wildfire Exposure Increases Pro-Environment Voting within Democratic but Not Republican Areas. American Political Science Review, 1-7.

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