Shaping stable support: Leveraging digital feedback interventions to elicit socio-Political acceptance of renewable energy

IF 9.3 2区 经济学 Q1 ECONOMICS Energy Policy Pub Date : 2024-09-19 DOI:10.1016/j.enpol.2024.114307
Felix Wagon , Gilbert Fridgen , Verena Tiefenbeck
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In democratic countries, the success of energy policies hinges on citizens' support and their acceptance of policy outcomes. In this study, we develop a digital feedback intervention to prompt citizens with information that visualizes the geographical distribution of wind turbines and to evaluate the effects on socio-political acceptance. In an online experiment, we exposed 430 German citizens to a personalized digital feedback intervention and elicited their acceptance of renewable wind energy. The results are threefold: First, citizens' acceptance of renewable wind energy that results from digital feedback is lower than initially claimed. Second, citizens who meaningfully engage with the digital feedback intervention are more likely to revise their acceptance of wind energy. Third, and surprisingly, citizens’ ecological attitude and place attachment to their current residence had no significant effect on the extent to which they revised their acceptance of renewable wind energy. Our results demonstrate that digital feedback interventions can act as a “sensor” for socio-political acceptance. This contributes to informing citizens about energy policy outcomes and provides valuable insights for policymakers promoting a participatory democracy paradigm.

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形成稳定的支持:利用数字反馈干预,激发社会政治对可再生能源的接受度
在民主国家,能源政策的成功与否取决于公民对政策结果的支持和接受程度。在本研究中,我们开发了一种数字反馈干预,向公民提供可视化风力涡轮机地理分布的信息,并评估其对社会政治接受度的影响。在一项在线实验中,我们向 430 名德国公民展示了个性化的数字反馈干预措施,并了解了他们对可再生风能的接受程度。实验结果有三个方面:首先,通过数字反馈获得的公民对可再生风能的接受度比最初声称的要低。其次,有意义地参与数字反馈干预的公民更有可能修正他们对风能的接受度。第三,令人惊讶的是,公民的生态态度和对当前居住地的依恋程度对他们修正对可再生风能的接受程度没有显著影响。我们的研究结果表明,数字反馈干预可以作为社会政治接受度的 "传感器"。这有助于让公民了解能源政策的结果,并为倡导参与式民主范例的政策制定者提供有价值的见解。
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Energy Policy
Energy Policy 管理科学-环境科学
CiteScore
17.30
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5.60%
发文量
540
审稿时长
7.9 months
期刊介绍: Energy policy is the manner in which a given entity (often governmental) has decided to address issues of energy development including energy conversion, distribution and use as well as reduction of greenhouse gas emissions in order to contribute to climate change mitigation. The attributes of energy policy may include legislation, international treaties, incentives to investment, guidelines for energy conservation, taxation and other public policy techniques. Energy policy is closely related to climate change policy because totalled worldwide the energy sector emits more greenhouse gas than other sectors.
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