{"id":19353,"date":"2012-08-14T00:00:01","date_gmt":"2012-08-14T05:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/beta.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/short-reads\/%year%\/%monthnum%\/%day%\/deepening-divide-between-republicans-and-democrats-over-business-regulation\/"},"modified":"2024-04-14T03:44:59","modified_gmt":"2024-04-14T08:44:59","slug":"deepening-divide-between-republicans-and-democrats-over-business-regulation","status":"publish","type":"short-read","link":"https:\/\/beta.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/short-reads\/2012\/08\/14\/deepening-divide-between-republicans-and-democrats-over-business-regulation\/","title":{"rendered":"Deepening Divide Between Republicans and Democrats Over Business Regulation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">No issue relating to business is more politically divisive than the impact of government regulation. <\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Fully 76% of Republicans say that government regulation of business does more harm than good, among the highest percentages ever. Just 41% of Democrats agree \u2014 a difference of 35 percentage points. In 2007, identical proportions of Republicans and Democrats said government regulation of business did more harm than good (57% each).<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Beyond the wide partisan differences over each of these measures, both parties are divided over the need for \u2014 or the impact of \u2014 government regulation.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Nearly nine-in-ten Tea Party Republicans (87%) say that government regulation of business does more harm than good. A smaller majority of Republicans who do not agree with the Tea Party, or have no opinion of the movement, agree (65%) with this view. But the larger division among Republicans is over the necessity of government regulation: 68% of Tea Party Republicans disagree with the idea that a free market economy needs government regulation to protect the public interest. Most non-Tea Party Republicans (62%) say that government regulation of the free market is needed. <\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Democrats\u2019 internal differences are not as stark. But while conservative and moderate Democrats are divided over whether government regulation of business does more harm than good (48% agree, 45% disagree), most liberal Democrats disagree (65%). Roughly eight-in-ten conservative and moderate Democrats (79%) and liberals (82%) agree that a free market needs government regulation. <a href=\"https:\/\/beta.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/politics\/2012\/06\/04\/section-5-values-about-business-wall-street-and-labor\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is a 35 point gap between Republicans who believe that government regulation of business usually does more harm than good and the number of Democrats who share that 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