by Chris Koski & Paul Manson

Public attitudes toward solar radiation management, geoengineering, cultural theory, and partisanship in US climate policy are at the centre of Not Yet Partisan: Cultural Theory Explains Attitudes about Solar Radiation Management in the US, by Chris Koski (Reed College) and Paul Manson (Portland State University), recently published in Policy & Politics. 

Solar radiation management (SRM) remains a low-salience and poorly understood climate intervention in the United States. Unlike carbon taxes or emissions regulations, SRM has not yet been fully absorbed into entrenched partisan conflict. Koski and Manson use this “pre-partisan” moment to ask a theoretically significant question: when elite cues are weak, what structures public opinion? 

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