Public Demand for Extraterritorial Environmental and Social Public Goods Provision
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6228010 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Lukas Rudolph (0000-0001-8977-4480, ETH Zurich, corresponding author), Dennis Kolcava (0000-0002-5511-4094, ETH Zurich), Thomas Bernauer (0000-0002-3775-6245, ETH Zurich) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 53 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 516-535 |
| Publication date | 2023-04-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | British Journal of Political Science (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0007-1234 • E-ISSN: 1469-2112 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0007123422000175 |
| OpenAlex | W4283380511 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 10 |
| References cited | 86 |
Vastly increased transnational business activity in recent decades has been accompanied by controversy over how to cope with its social and environmental impacts. The most prominent policy response thus far consists of international guidelines. We investigate to what extent and why citizens in a high-income country are willing to restrain companies to improve environmental and social conditions in other countries. Exploiting a real-world referendum in Switzerland, we use choice and vignette experiments with a representative sample of voters (N = 3,010) to study public demand for such regulation. Our results show that citizens prefer strict and unilateral rules (with a substantial variation of preferences by general social and environmental concern) while correctly assessing their consequences. Moreover, exposure to international norms increases demand for regulation. These findings highlight that democratic accountability can be a mechanism that motivates states to contribute to collective goods even if not in their economic interest and that awareness of relevant international norms among citizens can enhance this mechanism
Accountability · Business · Democracy · Economics · Mechanism (biology · Microeconomics · Political science · Politics · Public economics · Public good · Referendum · Sample (material · Vignette · Energy, Environment, Economic Growth · Environmental Sustainability in Business · Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies · Law · Social Psychology
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| Unique citing works | 10 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2,5 |
| Citation span | 2022 - 2026 (5) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 10 |