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Environmental Political Culture and Environmental Political Development: An Analysis of Legislative Voting, 1971–1989

On a number of recent occasions I have argued that environmental affairs since World War II arose from widespread changes in values associated with the evolution of the American society and economy. The change was slow and persistent, demographic in character, as people became more educated and more affluent. Older types of production and consumption gave way to newer and among the newer was "environmental quality," a new component in the persistent desire for a higher "standard of living." Such new values were held more strongly among younger people and became diffused throughout society more fully with each new generation.1 Much of that argument rested on qualitative evidence, drawn from the publications of environmental organizations, new developments in environmental science, public policy at state and federal levels, the debates in legislative bodies, regulatory agencies and executive offices, and the contests implicit in litigation. At the same time, some of it was quantitative, especially that provided by