Climate Change (Policy) Skepticism: Policy Performance Risk and Support for Fossil Fuel Taxation among Europeans

IF 1 4区管理学 Q3 PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION Transylvanian Review of Administrative Sciences Pub Date : 2022-02-25 DOI:10.24193/tras.65e.2

Jesse W. Campbell

引用次数: 2

Abstract

"Concern about climate change does not translate unconditionally into support for policy action, and some citizens are skeptical that (costly) public policies will address climate change effectively. I argue that risks to policy performance at the country level attenuate the link between climate change concern and support for policy action. Using a large sample of public opinion data from residents in 23 (mostly) European countries and both country and respondent- level estimates of policy performance risk, I demonstrate that the link between climate change concern and support for fossil fuel taxation is weaker for citizens in countries where policy performance is threatened. This result holds regardless of whether risk is operationalized as governance or economic risk. I discuss the need to overcome climate change policy skepticism in contexts with stronger policy performance risk profiles."

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气候变化(政策)怀疑论:欧洲人对化石燃料税的政策绩效风险和支持

“对气候变化的担忧并不能无条件地转化为对政策行动的支持，一些公民对（代价高昂的）公共政策将有效应对气候变化。我认为，国家一级政策绩效的风险削弱了对气候变化的关注与对政策行动的支持之间的联系。使用来自23个（主要是）欧洲国家居民的大量民意数据样本，以及国家和受访者对政策绩效风险的估计，我证明，对于政策绩效受到威胁的国家的公民来说，气候变化担忧与支持化石燃料税之间的联系较弱。无论风险是作为治理风险还是经济风险来操作，这一结果都成立。我讨论了在政策绩效风险状况更强的情况下克服气候变化政策怀疑论的必要性。“

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Transylvanian Review of Administrative Sciences PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION-

CiteScore

2.10

自引率

10.00%

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审稿时长

25 weeks

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