A review on political factors influencing public support for urban environmental policy

Abstract

Environmental quality is important to urban residents' physical, social and psychological well-being. Governments have been formulating and implementing policies to mitigate environmental deterioration in cities. To effectively enacting policies and achieving policy goals, gaining sufficient public support is a prerequisite, otherwise, the policy would be in ruins and the government may suffer from setbacks in other policies. Therefore, to understand what contributes to public support is a crucial task for policymakers. Though current literature on socio-demographic and attitudinal/psychological factors provides fruitful accounts for policy support, a comprehensive examination of political determinants has yet to be established. In response to this, this review paper explores political factors that influence level of policy support based on existing literature. An integrated framework is proposed for explaining policy support for urban environmental policy. This paper also discusses the possible directions of future research.

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