Res Publica - Journal of Undergraduate Research
Article Title
Environmental Legislation: Factors and Factions
Abstract
In recent years the environment has become an increasingly salient issue, with many citizens calling for higher environmental protection and precautions within the United States. However, it seems that congressmen have become unresponsive to these demands as partisanship progressively becomes the determining factor in environmental voting. This study attempts to discover what factors, along with party, determine a representative’s voting decisions on environmental legislation. By collecting data on United States House members in 2006, 2007, and 2010 and running linear regressions, the most significant factors in predicting House members’ voting patterns are identified; however, party and ideology seem to have increasingly become the most crucial factors in determining environmental voting decisions.
Recommended Citation
Luby, Timothy (2012) "Environmental Legislation: Factors and Factions," Res Publica - Journal of Undergraduate Research: Vol. 17Available at: https://digitalcommons.iwu.edu/respublica/vol17/iss1/10