Attitudes towards Trump Policies and Climate Change: The Key Roles of Aversion to Wealth Redistribution and Political Interest

Panno, Angelo; Carrus, Giuseppe; Leone, Luigi

doi:10.1111/josi.12318

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“…If we turn to environmental policies, similarly to welfare state functioning, also here the state guarantees that specific policy objectives must be reached and hence moderates the environmental outcomes. At the global level, since the Rio United Nations Conference on Environment and Development in 1992, environmental policy was at the heart of the policy agenda [31]-although from time to time highly contested, as by the Trump Presidency, supported by his voters, has clearly shown in a recent piece of research [32]. The recent movement "Fridays for Future" has further put into the political agenda the need to limit climate change via a world mobilization on 15 March, 2019 which was particularly intensively participated [33], and we might even expect environmental interest groups to develop a similarly important role as the workers' movement had in the development of the welfare state.…”

Section: Worlds Of Eco-welfare States?mentioning

confidence: 99%

Mapping Different Worlds of Eco-Welfare States

Zimmermann

Graziano²

2020

Sustainability

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Attention towards topics such as environmental pollution, climate change, or biodiversity has strongly increased in the last years. The struggles to balance market powers and ecological sustainability somehow evoke memories of the early days of European welfare states, when social protection emerged as a means to prevent industrial capitalism from disruptive social tensions due to excessive social inequalities. In fact, social and environmental crises are inseparably intertwined, as ecological destruction is likely to be followed by social deprivation, and a lack of social security can be a crucial barrier for ecologically sustainable action. Our paper seeks to provide a step towards such an integrated perspective by studying problem pressure and public interventions in the area of green welfare, that is, in social and environmental protection. By using available data from Eurostat and Environmental Performance Index (EPI) databases, we contrast environmental and social performances to detect links between the social and the ecological dimension in these areas and unearth different configurations of green welfare among European countries. Our findings suggest that there are different “worlds of eco-welfare states” which only partially overlap with the more conventional “world of welfare states” but show how the Nordic countries are in the relatively-better performing cluster.

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confidence: 99%

Mapping Different Worlds of Eco-Welfare States

Zimmermann

Graziano²

2020

Sustainability

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“…For example, politically engaged Americans who have a favorable attitude toward Donald Trump are inclined to deny the reality of climate change. This relationship is mediated in part by a component belief in neoliberalism: aversion to wealth redistribution (Panno, Leone, & Carrus, ). That is, Americans may favor Trump because of his right‐wing neoliberal loathing of wealth redistribution.…”

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The Invisible Hand is an Ideology: Toward a Social Psychology of Neoliberalism

Bettache

Chiu

2019

Journal of Social Issues

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On the one hand, neoliberalism, originally an economic theory, has evolved into a sociopolitical ideology and extended its hegemonic influence to all areas of life, including the production of psychological knowledge in academia and the practice of psychology in various domains. On the other hand, neoliberalism has been criticized as the root of all problems in contemporary societies. Widespread discontent with neoliberalism is seen as the catalyst for the rising popularity of populism, the election of Donald Trump in the United States, and the Brexit referendum. The discontent with neoliberalism has also inspired imaginations of what a postneoliberal society may be like, as evidenced by the rise of neosocialists such as Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez in the United States or Jeremy Corbyn in the United Kingdom. In this issue, we have gathered multidisciplinary insights to answer questions that would constitute a preliminary agenda of a social psychology of neoliberalism. These questions include: how neoliberalism can be studied social psychologically? What are the neoliberalist constraints on knowledge creation and social practices? How can social psychology shed light on the psychological responses to the hegemonic impact of neoliberalism and contribute to the imagination of a postneoliberal world? In short, is social psychology of neoliberalism a feasible and useful intellectual project for producing actionable social knowledge?What is social about social psychology? This question invites social psychologists to reflect on their discipline's defining attributes. This question has also challenged social psychologists to make their research socially relevant.

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“…Environmental psychological studies dedicated a great deal of theory and research in the past to understand the social and cognitive processes at the basis of ecological behaviors and sustainable choices in everyday life among "laypeople, " with significant achievements (e.g., Klöckner, 2013;Kaiser et al, 2014;Steg, 2016;Carrus et al, 2018;Evans et al, 2018;Panno et al, 2019). However, an interesting, yet still under investigated issue in this domain is related to the decision making and social cognitive processes of representatives of formal social units, such as, for example, members of elected bodies, public decision makers, administrative and company officers, civil society and public opinion leaders (e.g., Brondi et al, 2014Brondi et al, , 2016Sarrica et al, 2016a).…”

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Psychological Processes and Institutional Actors in the Sustainable Energy Transition: A Case-Study Analysis of a Local Community in Italy

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This paper presents the results of a qualitative study exploring the role of formal social units in the sustainable energy transition process. A small community in Northeast Italy was assumed as case study, in the context of a wider EU-funded research project aimed at understanding the individual and collective dimensions of energyrelated choices. Starting from a general framework and integrated approach to explain sustainable energy transitions proposed by Steg et al. (2015), the main aim of our study was to identify the psychological and social factors that motivated the key actors to undertake an energy self-sufficiency path in the case-study area. Our analyses aimed at understanding the social, cultural, and socioeconomic dynamics in the energy transition process of the community. The study outlined how these factors contributed to foster collaborative actions between public decision makers, relevant stakeholders, civil society, and citizens. Results of a computer-supported qualitative content analysis using the software MAXQDA helped to shed light on the specific mechanisms and dynamics driving energy choices and energy-related behavior among the community. The implication for best practices and successful implementations of energy transition process in small communities emerging from this case study are discussed.

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Attitudes towards Trump Policies and Climate Change: The Key Roles of Aversion to Wealth Redistribution and Political Interest

Cited by 23 publications

References 36 publications

Mapping Different Worlds of Eco-Welfare States

Mapping Different Worlds of Eco-Welfare States

The Invisible Hand is an Ideology: Toward a Social Psychology of Neoliberalism

Psychological Processes and Institutional Actors in the Sustainable Energy Transition: A Case-Study Analysis of a Local Community in Italy

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