Sverker C Jagers
Biographic Data
| ID | 5986354 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sverker C Jagers |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sverker C |
| FAMILY NAME | Jagers |
| SIGNATURE | JAGERS S C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Political Science Unit, Luleå University of Technology and Department of Political Science University of Gothenburg |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 14 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Public support for military conservation
The efforts made by states to curb wildlife poaching increasingly involve the deployment of military forces, especially in countries of the Global South. This shift towards a “war on poachers” can include measures such as shoot-on-sight policies, raising concerns about civil and human rights. While previous research has emphasized the perspectives of local communities, law enforcement, or hunters, to the best of our knowledge little is known abou…
Conservation for nature and wildlife’s sake
We conduct a survey experiment testing the causal link between ethical justifications and acceptability towards two environmental policies: conservation area expansion and wildlife infrastructure. In a 2 × 3 experiment with American participants ( n = 1604), we test two ethical justifications – anthropocentric justification (nature as instrumentally valuable) and a non-anthropocentric justification (nature as intrinsically valuable) compared to a…
The Poor Are Hit the Hardest”—Norwegians' Perceptions of Climate (In)Justice
The concept of climate justice is frequently discussed in academic literature focusing on the societal impacts of climate change and climate policy. Less attention has been paid to the public's understanding of the concept. In this paper, we investigate whether the public acknowledges a link between climate change and (in)justice, and, if so, what they consider unjust. A representative sample of the Norwegian public ( N = 1923) was asked what, if…
Exploring the measurement of political trust A multilevel observational analysis of six Swedish public agencies
Political trust is a well-used construct and serves both as an explanation and an outcome in the social sciences. Considering the importance of the construct, relatively little attention has been allocated to its measurement. While the exist-ing literature on the measurement of political trust focuses on either developing and validating new scales, or scaling and equivalence assessment of the more gen-eral measures, this article contributes by an…
Public acceptance of fossil fuel subsidy removal can be reinforced with revenue recycling
Cross-national analysis of attitudes towards fossil fuel subsidy removal
In 2021, governments of 51 countries spent US$697 billion on subsidizing fossil fuels. Removing fossil fuel subsidies is crucial not only for reducing CO 2 emissions and making carbon pricing more effective, but also for making more valuable use of government funds. Currently, however, scientific evidence on the scale and scope of public attitudes towards fossil fuel subsidy-removal policies is lacking, yet it is instrumental for gauging politica…
Meta-analyses of fifteen determinants of public opinion about climate change taxes and laws
Public acceptance is a precondition for implementing taxes and laws aimed at mitigating climate change. However, it still remains challenging to understand its determinants for the climate community. Here, we use a meta-analytic approach to examine the role of public opinion about climate change taxes and laws. Fifteen variables were examined by synthesizing 89 datasets from 51 articles across 33 countries, with a total sample of 119,465 particip…
Trust, corruption, and compliance with regulations
Objective While trust is proposed as a key concept to understand people's compliance in natural resource governance, research would benefit from being more precise. Our aim is to test whether more specific survey measures of people's tendency to violate rules and the degree to which law enforcing rangers are seen as corrupt trumps more commonly used items on intra‐personal trust and trust in institutions. Methods We analyze an original survey of …
Linking democracy and biodiversity conservation
Increasing human pressure threatens plant and animal species with extinction worldwide. National political institutions constitute an important arena for biodiversity conservation. Yet, the relationship between how democratic these national institutions are and a country's efforts towards and track-record for biodiversity conservation remains poorly understood. In this review, we outline the theoretical links between democracy and biodiversity co…
Testing the Importance of Individuals’ Motives for Explaining Environmentally Significant Behavior
Objective This article explores how different motives affect behavior, and attempts to explain how the causal chain of values and beliefs forms our understanding of and motives for private‐sphere environmentally significant behaviors (ESBs). As a point of departure, we postulate that traditional models focusing primarily on individual‐level motivation as a driver for ESB should benefit significantly from making a distinction in the dependent vari…
The Environmental Psychology of the Ecological Citizen
Objectives The overall objective of this article is to contribute to the identification of underlying factors causing individuals’ pro‐environmental behavior (PEB). Methods This is done by the amalgamation of an empirically‐derived theory originating in the behavioral science research—the value‐belief‐norm (VBN) theory (e.g., Stern et al., 1999)—and a rather recently developed theory in political science—the ecological citizenship (EC) model (e.g…
Explaining Ups and Downs in the Public’s Environmental Concern in Sweden
In this article, the authors search for explanations to ups and downs in the Swedish public’s environmental concern since the 1980s. In line with previous research, this study examines the effects of economic cycles and media coverage. In addition, the authors hypothesize that the economy will affect environmental concern less over time because of the entry of ecological modernization into elite discourse. Using time series regression analysis an…
What is a fair CO2 tax increase? On fair emission reductions in the transport sector
Can trust in politicians explain individuals' support for climate policy? The case of CO 2 tax
This article provides an analysis of the support for public policies from a trust perspective. The empirical focus is on the use of a tax on carbon dioxide (CO2), a policy tool aimed at coordinating national emissions targets in Sweden. Among economists and experts in the field of climate policy, a CO2 tax is viewed as a cost-effective policy. The policy problem is that public support for CO2 taxes is very low, leaving policy makers with high-cos…
Trust, corruption, and compliance with regulations
Objective While trust is proposed as a key concept to understand people's compliance in natural resource governance, research would benefit from being more precise. Our aim is to test whether more specific survey measures of people's tendency to violate rules and the degree to which law enforcing rangers are seen as corrupt trumps more commonly used items on intra‐personal trust and trust in institutions. Methods We analyze an original survey of …
Conservation for nature and wildlife’s sake
We conduct a survey experiment testing the causal link between ethical justifications and acceptability towards two environmental policies: conservation area expansion and wildlife infrastructure. In a 2 × 3 experiment with American participants ( n = 1604), we test two ethical justifications – anthropocentric justification (nature as instrumentally valuable) and a non-anthropocentric justification (nature as intrinsically valuable) compared to a…
Testing the Importance of Individuals’ Motives for Explaining Environmentally Significant Behavior
Objective This article explores how different motives affect behavior, and attempts to explain how the causal chain of values and beliefs forms our understanding of and motives for private‐sphere environmentally significant behaviors (ESBs). As a point of departure, we postulate that traditional models focusing primarily on individual‐level motivation as a driver for ESB should benefit significantly from making a distinction in the dependent vari…
The Environmental Psychology of the Ecological Citizen
Objectives The overall objective of this article is to contribute to the identification of underlying factors causing individuals’ pro‐environmental behavior (PEB). Methods This is done by the amalgamation of an empirically‐derived theory originating in the behavioral science research—the value‐belief‐norm (VBN) theory (e.g., Stern et al., 1999)—and a rather recently developed theory in political science—the ecological citizenship (EC) model (e.g…
Can trust in politicians explain individuals' support for climate policy? The case of CO 2 tax
This article provides an analysis of the support for public policies from a trust perspective. The empirical focus is on the use of a tax on carbon dioxide (CO2), a policy tool aimed at coordinating national emissions targets in Sweden. Among economists and experts in the field of climate policy, a CO2 tax is viewed as a cost-effective policy. The policy problem is that public support for CO2 taxes is very low, leaving policy makers with high-cos…
What is a fair CO2 tax increase? On fair emission reductions in the transport sector
Explaining Ups and Downs in the Public’s Environmental Concern in Sweden
In this article, the authors search for explanations to ups and downs in the Swedish public’s environmental concern since the 1980s. In line with previous research, this study examines the effects of economic cycles and media coverage. In addition, the authors hypothesize that the economy will affect environmental concern less over time because of the entry of ecological modernization into elite discourse. Using time series regression analysis an…
The Environmental Psychology of the Ecological Citizen
Objectives The overall objective of this article is to contribute to the identification of underlying factors causing individuals’ pro‐environmental behavior (PEB). Methods This is done by the amalgamation of an empirically‐derived theory originating in the behavioral science research—the value‐belief‐norm (VBN) theory (e.g., Stern et al., 1999)—and a rather recently developed theory in political science—the ecological citizenship (EC) model (e.g…
Testing the Importance of Individuals’ Motives for Explaining Environmentally Significant Behavior
Objective This article explores how different motives affect behavior, and attempts to explain how the causal chain of values and beliefs forms our understanding of and motives for private‐sphere environmentally significant behaviors (ESBs). As a point of departure, we postulate that traditional models focusing primarily on individual‐level motivation as a driver for ESB should benefit significantly from making a distinction in the dependent vari…
Linking democracy and biodiversity conservation
Increasing human pressure threatens plant and animal species with extinction worldwide. National political institutions constitute an important arena for biodiversity conservation. Yet, the relationship between how democratic these national institutions are and a country's efforts towards and track-record for biodiversity conservation remains poorly understood. In this review, we outline the theoretical links between democracy and biodiversity co…
Trust, corruption, and compliance with regulations
Objective While trust is proposed as a key concept to understand people's compliance in natural resource governance, research would benefit from being more precise. Our aim is to test whether more specific survey measures of people's tendency to violate rules and the degree to which law enforcing rangers are seen as corrupt trumps more commonly used items on intra‐personal trust and trust in institutions. Methods We analyze an original survey of …
Meta-analyses of fifteen determinants of public opinion about climate change taxes and laws
Public acceptance is a precondition for implementing taxes and laws aimed at mitigating climate change. However, it still remains challenging to understand its determinants for the climate community. Here, we use a meta-analytic approach to examine the role of public opinion about climate change taxes and laws. Fifteen variables were examined by synthesizing 89 datasets from 51 articles across 33 countries, with a total sample of 119,465 particip…
Public acceptance of fossil fuel subsidy removal can be reinforced with revenue recycling
Cross-national analysis of attitudes towards fossil fuel subsidy removal
In 2021, governments of 51 countries spent US$697 billion on subsidizing fossil fuels. Removing fossil fuel subsidies is crucial not only for reducing CO 2 emissions and making carbon pricing more effective, but also for making more valuable use of government funds. Currently, however, scientific evidence on the scale and scope of public attitudes towards fossil fuel subsidy-removal policies is lacking, yet it is instrumental for gauging politica…
Exploring the measurement of political trust A multilevel observational analysis of six Swedish public agencies
Political trust is a well-used construct and serves both as an explanation and an outcome in the social sciences. Considering the importance of the construct, relatively little attention has been allocated to its measurement. While the exist-ing literature on the measurement of political trust focuses on either developing and validating new scales, or scaling and equivalence assessment of the more gen-eral measures, this article contributes by an…
Conservation for nature and wildlife’s sake
We conduct a survey experiment testing the causal link between ethical justifications and acceptability towards two environmental policies: conservation area expansion and wildlife infrastructure. In a 2 × 3 experiment with American participants ( n = 1604), we test two ethical justifications – anthropocentric justification (nature as instrumentally valuable) and a non-anthropocentric justification (nature as intrinsically valuable) compared to a…
The Poor Are Hit the Hardest”—Norwegians' Perceptions of Climate (In)Justice
The concept of climate justice is frequently discussed in academic literature focusing on the societal impacts of climate change and climate policy. Less attention has been paid to the public's understanding of the concept. In this paper, we investigate whether the public acknowledges a link between climate change and (in)justice, and, if so, what they consider unjust. A representative sample of the Norwegian public ( N = 1923) was asked what, if…
Public support for military conservation
The efforts made by states to curb wildlife poaching increasingly involve the deployment of military forces, especially in countries of the Global South. This shift towards a “war on poachers” can include measures such as shoot-on-sight policies, raising concerns about civil and human rights. While previous research has emphasized the perspectives of local communities, law enforcement, or hunters, to the best of our knowledge little is known abou…
Political science (10 works) · Economics (9 works) · Psychology (7 works) · Politics (6 works) · Social Psychology (6 works) · Climate Change Communication and Perception (5 works) · Ecology (5 works) · Environmental Education and Sustainability (5 works) · Public economics (5 works) · Business (4 works)