Environmental belief systems among Japanese and American elites and publics |
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Authors: | John C. Pierce Nicholas P. Lovirch Jr. Taketsugu Tsurutani Takematsu Abe |
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Affiliation: | (1) Department of Political Science, Washington State University, 99164-4880 Pullman, WA;(2) Nihon University, Japan |
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Abstract: | This paper compares the environmental belief systems of elites and publics in Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan, and Spokane County, Washington State. The central question posed is whether the shared forces of postindustrialism generate similar belief structures among elites in nations with quite distinct cultural, political, and historical backgrounds. As a prototypical postindustrial policy area, natural resource/environmental politics is used as the specific issue domain of study. The results emerging from this comparative inquiry reveal substantial differences between the Japanese and American local area elites in the structuring of environmental beliefs, especially in the role of postindustrial orientations. The results also suggest much larger differences in belief system content and structure between elite and general public samples in the Spokane area than in Shizuoka Prefecture. |
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