Who's afraid of more ambitious climate policy? How distributional implications shape policy support and compensatory preferences
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4329802 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Lena Maria Schaffer (0000-0002-6584-3581, University of Lucerne, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 33 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 567-590 |
| Publication date | 2024-06-06 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Environmental Politics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0964-4016 • E-ISSN: 1743-8934 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/09644016.2023.2247818 |
| OpenAlex | W4386291933 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 25 |
| References cited | 57 |
Nation states need to strengthen domestic climate policies to address global climate change. As more ambitious climate policy shapes the material interests of different societal groups, distributional conflict about who wins and loses will likely intensify over the coming years. I use the recent complete revision of the Swiss CO2 law as an example of a change towards more ambitious climate policy and experimentally test whether distributional implications resulting from this policy change affect both people’s policy support and redistributive preferences. I establish that learning about negative impacts on some societal groups significantly decreases support, while information about groups profiting also increases support. Moreover, being informed about the negative consequences of ambitious climate policy makes people more likely to support redistributive schemes, even if they are not personally affected. These results show the centrality of distributional implications for the political feasibility of progressive climate policy
Centrality · Climate change · Climate policy · Economics · Political economy · Political economy of climate change · Political science · Politics · Public economics · Climate Change Communication and Perception · Climate Change Policy and Economics · Environmental Education and Sustainability · Law
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| Unique citing works | 25 |
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| Citations per year | 12,5 |
| Citation span | 2024 - 2026 (3) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 22 |