Abstract The partisan divide on climate policy in the United States is well-documented. Decarbonizing the energy system is key to addressing climate change, and social support for many energy policies is not as starkly partisan as the question of the existence of climate change. In this analysis, we blend insights from social psychology and political science that suggest that partisanship is a social identity with varying salience across individuals. We integrate the concept of expressive partisanship with research on social support for energy policy by arguing that there are potentially two types of expressive partisans—ideological and identitarian expressive. Using data from the Climate Change in the American Mind study, our results imply that partisan polarization on energy and climate policy is driven by identitarian expressiveness, rather than deep ideological differences between liberals and conservative, or Democrats and Republicans.

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对能源系统脱碳的社会支持：表达性党派之争的作用

摘要 美国气候政策的党派分歧是有据可查的。能源系统脱碳是应对气候变化的关键，对许多能源政策的社会支持并不像气候变化的存在问题那么明显的党派偏见。在这项分析中，我们融合了来自社会心理学和政治学的见解，这些见解表明党派偏见是一种社会认同，在个人之间具有不同的显着性。我们将表达性党派的概念与能源政策的社会支持研究相结合，认为潜在的表达性党派有两种类型——意识形态表达性和身份认同性表达性。使用来自美国思想研究中气候变化的数据，我们的结果表明，党派对能源和气候政策的两极分化是由同一性表现力驱动的，