Many democracies find it difficult to act swiftly on problems such as climate change and
biodiversity loss. This is reflected in long-standing debates in research and policy about …

James Hansen's dramatic 1988 Senate testimony that human-caused global warming had
already begun put the issue on the US national agenda (McCright & Dunlap 2000). Yet, the …

Like past editions, this ninth edition of Social Inequality: Forms, Causes, and Consequences
is a user-friendly introduction to the study of social inequality. This book conveys the …

The political activities of industries associated with the production and consumption of fossil
fuels have thwarted state efforts to advance climate policy. Yet research on the role of trade …

The Climate Change Counter Movement has been a topic of interest for social scientists and
environmentalists for the past 25 years (Dunlap and McCright, 2015). This research uses the …

This study investigates the role of climate change contrarians in the defeat of the American
Clean Energy and Security Act in 2010, a pivotal moment in US climate policy that marked …

We used data from a 2014 survey (n= 1,287) of US residents and recent polls to assess how
public support for the US Endangered Species Act (ESA) changed over time, and whether …

Great socioeconomic transitions bring about the demise of certain industries and the rise of
others. The losers of the transition tend to deploy a variety of tactics to obstruct change. We …

Abstract The" Part of the Solution" article describes how the food industry has evolved its
strategies to respond to critics and government regulation by co-option and appeasement to …

Societal decarbonization likely requires changes to building standards encouraging
electrification, partly through restricting connections to legacy utilities such as natural gas …