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658 Annals Am. Acad. Pol. & Soc. Sci. 6 (2015)

handle is hein.cow/anamacp0658 and id is 1 raw text is: INTRODUCTION The Politics of Science: Political Values and the Production, Communi- cation, and Reception of Scientific Knowledge By ELIZABETH SUHAY and JAMES N. DRUCKMAN Keywords: science and politics; politicization of sci- ence; science communication; public opinion; partisanship; motivated reason- ing; climate change In early May 2014 a team of 300 expert scien- tists issued a report titled Climate Change Impacts in the United States. The report came after seventy workshops and thousands of pub- lic and expert comments, including from agen- cies with representatives from oil companies (National Climate Assessment 2014). Among its many conclusions, the report states: Global climate is changing and this is apparent across the United States in a wide range of observa- tions. The global warming of the past 50 years is primarily due to human activities, predomi- nantly the burning of fossil fuels.... Climate change threatens human health and well-being in many ways (pp. 15-16). The report reinforces a fairly long-standing scientific consensus and, by all accounts, reflects high-quality evidence and analysis from a heter- ogeneous group of scientists who took care to incorporate the views of various constituencies. Yet partisan rancor immediately followed. For example, Republican Florida Senator Marco Rubio stated, I do not believe that human activ- ity is causing these dramatic changes to our cli- mate the way these scientists are portraying it. Elizabeth Suhay is an assistant professor of government at American University. She studies public opinion and political communication in the U.S. context, with a cur- rent focus on the relationship between Americans political attitudes and their beliefs about the influence of genes on human behavior. Her work has appeared in the American Journal of Political Science, American Politics Research, Public Opinion Quarterly, and Political Behavior. Prior to entering academia, Suhay worked in the editorial departments of several book publishers, including WW Norton and the University of Michigan Press. DOI: 10.1177/0002716214559004 ANNALS, AAPSS, 658, March 2015 6

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