How trust and emotions influence policy acceptance: The case of the Irish water charges

Rodríguez-Sánchez, Carla; Schuitema, Geertje; Claudy, Marius; Esper, Franco Sancho

doi:10.1111/bjso.12242

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“…The latter should also be seen in the context of a recent debate about water taxes in Ireland whereby the government, in 2015, introduced water charges for all Irish citizens. As of mid‐2016, these taxes were abolished due to public protests and refusal to pay (Rodriguez‐Sanchez, Schuitema, Claudy, & Sancho‐Esper, ). Hence, the abolishment of the water charges meant that private well owners were once again the only people paying for drinking water in Ireland, which strengthened feelings of distrust and unfairness when discussing government intervention.…”

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Risk Perceptions Toward Drinking Water Quality Among Private Well Owners in Ireland: The Illusion of Control

2019

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In rural areas where no public or group water schemes exist, groundwater is often the only source of drinking water and is extracted by drilling private wells. Typically, private well owners are responsible for the quality and testing of their own drinking water. Previous studies indicate that well owners tend to underestimate the risks of their well water being contaminated, yet little is known about why this is the case. We conducted a qualitative study by interviewing private well owners in Ireland to investigate their beliefs surrounding their water quality, which, in turn, inform their risk perceptions and their willingness to regularly test their water. Based on our findings we designed a theoretical model arguing that perceived control is central in the perceived contamination risks of well water. More specifically, we argue that well owners have the illusion of being in control over their water quality, which implies that people often perceive themselves to be more in control of a situation than they actually are. As a result, they tend to underestimate contamination risks, which subsequently impact negatively on water testing behaviors. Theoretical and practical implications are highlighted.

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Risk Perceptions Toward Drinking Water Quality Among Private Well Owners in Ireland: The Illusion of Control

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“…Research in other areas found that trusting policies can also be achieved through people’s emotional responses. The authors believe that irrational actions based on emotional judgments are more likely to be due to people’s lack of knowledge or experience about new, unknown, and ambiguous events [ 43 ]. In the case of COVID-19, many researchers have found that government trust affects people’s risk perceptions, protective behaviors, and behavioral intentions [ 44 , 45 ].…”

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Factors influencing protective behavior in the post-COVID-19 period in China: a cross-sectional study

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Background The study aimed to explore the factors influencing protective behavior and its association with factors during the post-COVID-19 period in China based on the risk perception emotion model and the protective action decision model (PADM). Methods A total of 2830 valid questionnaires were collected as data for empirical analysis via network sampling in China. Structural equation modeling (SEM) was performed to explore the relationships between the latent variables. Results SEM indicated that social emotion significantly positively affected protective behavior and intention. Protective behavioral intention had significant direct effects on protective behavior, and the direct effects were also the largest. Government trust did not have a significant effect on protective behavior but did have a significant indirect effect. Moreover, it was found that government trust had the greatest direct effect on social emotion. In addition, we found that excessive risk perception level may directly reduce people’s intention and frequency of engaging in protective behavior, which was not conducive to positive, protective behavior. Conclusion In the post-COVID-19 period, theoretical framework constructed in this study can be used to evaluate people’s protective behavior. The government should strengthen its information-sharing and interaction with the public, enhance people’s trust in the government, create a positive social mood, appropriately regulate people's risk perception, and, finally, maintain a positive attitude and intent of protection.

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“…The literature suggests that emotions and positive affect may drive proenvironmental behaviors (e.g., Vining and Ebreo, 2002;Bissing-Olson et al, 2013) and the desire to engage in pro-environmental action (e.g., Carrus et al, 2008). However, instead of considering general emotions and positive affect, studies have predominantly analyzed the influence of individual positive and negative emotions related to specific topics such as introducing a new water charge (Rodriguez-Sanchez et al, 2018) or engaging in different pro-environmental behaviors (Bissing-Olson et al, 2016;Carrus et al, 2008). This study focuses on happiness.…”

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Analyzing differences between different types of pro-environmental behaviors: Do attitude intensity and type of knowledge matter?

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Escario

Rodríguez-Sánchez

2019

Resources, Conservation and Recycling

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This study explores whether the associations between general environmental attitudes and proenvironmental behaviors are heterogeneous and whether these associations depend on attitude intensity and the specific pro-environmental behavior. The study also examines the association between objective and subjective knowledge and behavior and the relationship with socioeconomic and personal characteristics. Mixed effects logistic regressions were performed using data from a representative nationwide survey of Spanish citizens aged 18 to 90 years (N = 2,495). The results revealed interesting patterns of heterogeneity. First, only curtailment behaviors (separating trash and using street trash cans) were significantly associated with general environmental attitudes. This result was observed only for the highest level of environmental attitudes. Second, whereas subjective knowledge was associated with all pro-environmental behaviors, objective knowledge was only associated with efficiency behavior (using low-energy light bulbs). Finally, men showed lower levels of reported behavior than women for all pro-environmental activities. The policy implications of these findings are discussed.

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How trust and emotions influence policy acceptance: The case of the Irish water charges

Cited by 42 publications

References 80 publications

Risk Perceptions Toward Drinking Water Quality Among Private Well Owners in Ireland: The Illusion of Control

Risk Perceptions Toward Drinking Water Quality Among Private Well Owners in Ireland: The Illusion of Control

Factors influencing protective behavior in the post-COVID-19 period in China: a cross-sectional study

Analyzing differences between different types of pro-environmental behaviors: Do attitude intensity and type of knowledge matter?

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