2021
DOI: 10.3389/fpos.2021.656053
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Governing for Future Generations: How Political Trust Shapes Attitudes Towards Climate and Debt Policies

Abstract: Policy decisions, and public preferences about them, often entail judgements about costs people should be willing to pay for the benefit of future generations. Economic analyses discount policies’ future benefits based on expectations about increasing standards of living, while empirical studies in psychology have found future-oriented people are more motivated to protect the environment. In this article, using original surveys and survey experiments in four countries—Sweden, Spain, South Korea, and China—we s… Show more

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“…[98][99][100] Separately, lower levels of political trust are associated with lower support for (carbon-centric) climate policy, especially tax instruments. [101][102][103][104][105] However, the empirical associations and causal pathways are complex and contested-partly because ''inequality'' and ''trust'' can be specified and measured in different ways. On the basis of the existing research, we suggest two possible mechanisms by which social and economic inequalities may undermine the social foundations of collective climate action.…”
Section: Trepidation: the Politics Of Economic Insecuritymentioning
confidence: 99%
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“…[98][99][100] Separately, lower levels of political trust are associated with lower support for (carbon-centric) climate policy, especially tax instruments. [101][102][103][104][105] However, the empirical associations and causal pathways are complex and contested-partly because ''inequality'' and ''trust'' can be specified and measured in different ways. On the basis of the existing research, we suggest two possible mechanisms by which social and economic inequalities may undermine the social foundations of collective climate action.…”
Section: Trepidation: the Politics Of Economic Insecuritymentioning
confidence: 99%
“…103 Such cynicism plausibly hampers public support for ambitious carbon-centric climate policy, since decarbonization requires extensive policies that impose short-term costs for promised future benefits. 101,103,105,106 The second mechanism concerns the interaction between social and economic inequalities and the role of culture in mediating this interaction. 96 As economic inequality grows, social divisions become more pronounced.…”
Section: Trepidation: the Politics Of Economic Insecuritymentioning
confidence: 99%
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“…Although theoretically compelling, a range of factors rooted in the context of implementation can threaten the performance of a fossil fuel usage taxation regime. Such threats have distributive consequences, as underperformance will not affect all stakeholders equally; some will bear disproportionate costs, while others will benefit at their expense (Davidovic, Harring and Jagers, 2020;Fairbrother et al, 2021;Rafaty, 2018). Given that the value of the sacrifices made by stakeholders is dependent on like sacrifices being made by others, failure to distribute these equitably renders any sacrifice less meaningful.…”
Section: Policy Performance Risk and Fossil Fuel Taxationmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…First, those with a more conservative political orientation tend to be less supportive of climate change policy (Davidovic and Harring, 2020; Davidovic, Harring and Jagers, 2020), and I included a measure of conservative political orientation (answers are on a scale from 0 to 10 spanning a self-estimation of left wing to right wing political views). Second, trust, both generalized and trust in government, has been among the most studied predictors of climate policy support (Fairbrother et al, 2021;Kulin and Johansson Sevä, 2021;Harring, 2013). I measured generalized trust using answers to the prompt 'Most people can be trusted or you can't be too careful', which is answered on a scale from 0 to 10.…”
Section: Control Variablesmentioning
confidence: 99%