Political trust and climate policy choice: evidence from a conjoint experiment
Political trust and climate policy choice: evidence from a conjoint experiment
Why do citizens support or reject climate change mitigation policies? This is not an easy choice: citizens need to support government in making these decisions, accept potentially radical behaviour change, and have altruism across borders and for future generations. A substantial literature argues that political trust facilitates citizen support for these complex policy decisions by mitigating the cost and uncer- tainty that policies impose on individuals and buttressing support for government intervention. We test whether this is the case with a pre-registered conjoint exper- iment fielded in Germany in which we vary fundamental aspects of policy design that are related to the cost, uncertainty, and implementation of climate change policies. Contrary to strong theoretical expectations and previous work, we find no difference between those with low and high trust on their support for different policy attributes, assuaging the concern that low and declining trust inhibits climate policy making.
Devine, Daniel
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Stoker, Gerry
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Jennings, Will
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Devine, Daniel
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Stoker, Gerry
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Jennings, Will
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Devine, Daniel, Stoker, Gerry and Jennings, Will
(2023)
Political trust and climate policy choice: evidence from a conjoint experiment.
Journal of Public Policy.
(In Press)
Abstract
Why do citizens support or reject climate change mitigation policies? This is not an easy choice: citizens need to support government in making these decisions, accept potentially radical behaviour change, and have altruism across borders and for future generations. A substantial literature argues that political trust facilitates citizen support for these complex policy decisions by mitigating the cost and uncer- tainty that policies impose on individuals and buttressing support for government intervention. We test whether this is the case with a pre-registered conjoint exper- iment fielded in Germany in which we vary fundamental aspects of policy design that are related to the cost, uncertainty, and implementation of climate change policies. Contrary to strong theoretical expectations and previous work, we find no difference between those with low and high trust on their support for different policy attributes, assuaging the concern that low and declining trust inhibits climate policy making.
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Accepted/In Press date: 25 November 2023
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Local EPrints ID: 485019
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/485019
ISSN: 0143-814X
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