Determinants of Countywide Voting Behavior on Environmental Ballot Measures: 1990-2000

Autor/in	Salka, William M.
Titel	Determinants of Countywide Voting Behavior on Environmental Ballot Measures: 1990-2000
Quelle	In: Rural Sociology, 68 (2003) 2, S.253-277 (25 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0036-0112
Schlagwörter	Voting; Behavior; Environmental Standards; Social Indicators; Counties; Rural Urban Differences; Individual Characteristics; Economic Factors + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Abstimmung; Umweltauflage; Social indicator; Sozialer Indikator; Stadt-Land-Beziehung; Personality characteristic; Personality traits; Persönlichkeitsmerkmal; Ökonomischer Faktor
Abstract	There is considerable debate in the literature regarding the variables that produce differing levels of countywide support for environmental protection. Competing explanations include differences stemming from individual attributes of residents, economic conditions, and urban-rural differences. The present study examines why some counties express higher levels of support for environmental protection when voting on environmental ballot measures. Using voting data aggregated at the county level on state-wide environmental ballot measures in five states, OLS regression is employed to examine the utility of each explanation. The results suggest that while all three hypotheses are accurate in a number of cases and urban counties tend to be more supportive of environmental protection than rural counties, individual attributes and economic conditions appear to be the most influential. (Contains 7 tables.) (Author).
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Update	2017/4/10