Association between Political Party Affiliation and Environmental Policy Stance

Faculty Sponsor: Professor Nazzaro

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Krystian Luniewski

Krystian is a sophomore at Wesleyan University majoring in Economics. He’s currently a TA for the QAC and you can catch him around playing either playing club soccer or grinding it out in the gym. In addition, he loves nature and traveling all around the world. His research focuses holistically focusses on global warming but hones in on the effects of how political affiliation affects one’s environmental policy choices proposed by the government.

Abstract: My research looks at the association between Political Party Affiliation and Environmental Policy Stance Government should take among those who Believe in Global Warming. After completing appropriate data management and running statistical tests, I found that there is indeed a difference in the type of environmental policy Democrats and Republicans are willing to support. I also controlled for attitudinal/demographics such as education and gender where education came to be statistically significant and different while gender wasn’t. My motive for this experiment was to figure out if there is any common ground between the two parties that could be examined in order to get one step closer to analyzing an environmental policy that could be proposed and solidify a bipartisan agreement on the global warming problem our world is facing today.

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