The acceptance of instruments in instrument mix situations: Citizens’ perspective on Swiss energy transition

Ingold, Karin; Stadelmann‐Steffen, Isabelle; Kammermann, Lorenz

doi:10.1016/j.respol.2018.10.018

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“…To test our hypotheses, we estimate hierarchical linear models and account for group-specific relationships, such as varying policy effects contingent on individual trust and climate change attitudes, by including cross-level interactions. In addition to the main explanatory variables, we also include a series of individual-level variables based on previous research (e.g., Ingold et al 2018;Stadelmann-Steffen and Dermont 2018). Information on coding and descriptive statistics of all included variables can be found in Table A.1 of the online appendix.…”

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“…Although these differences are in keeping with previous research (cf.Carattini et al, 2017;Ingold et al, 2018; Stadelmann-Steffen and Dermont, 2018), we would like to point out that the tax-related question seems to be formulated in the most concrete way in the ESS (i.e., an increase in a tax on fossil fuel), which may cause the comparatively higher rejection rates.7 Compiled by the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment in collaboration with the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law: www.lse.ac.uk/GranthamInstitute/climate-change-laws-of-the-world.…”

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Public opinion in policy contexts. A comparative analysis of domestic energy policies and individual policy preferences in Europe

Stadelmann‐Steffen

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2020

International Political Science Review

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Recent research and real-world processes suggest that effective climate change mitigation policies are not feasible without at least a certain degree of public support. Hence, we investigate the link between existing domestic energy policies and individual policy instrument preferences in 21 European countries. We assume a policy feedback perspective and, thus, start from the idea that the current domestic energy context influences what future policies are possible and preferred by citizens. High political trust and strong climate change attitudes are expected to strengthen this relationship. Our results do not lend support to a general link between existing policies and future policy preferences. However, we find evidence of a positive policy feedback in individuals with strong climate change attitudes and/or high levels of political trust, which, depending on each country’s current energy policy, either hinders or facilitates the energy transition.

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Public opinion in policy contexts. A comparative analysis of domestic energy policies and individual policy preferences in Europe

Stadelmann‐Steffen

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2020

International Political Science Review

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“…We argue that this question is highly relevant, especially in the fields of energy policy and transition. Within these fields, the acceptance of new options not only depends upon the state's strategies, but also on the perceived legitimacy of the instruments, the broader political context, and preferences of a wide array of concerned actors (Ingold et al, 2018). If the preferences of central actors do not mirror the currently implemented policy mix, they might…”

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“…In that regard, recent studies emphasize the criterion of stakeholder acceptance, in which the policy preferences of not just elected officials, but also of stakeholders, public, and private actors, are crucial (Dermont, Ingold, Kammermann, & Stadelmann-Steffen, 2017;Wüstenhagen, Wolsink, & Bürer, 2007). Research on policy acceptance focuses on the idea that policy instruments are more effectively introduced and later implemented when they are accepted, or even supported, by actors representing different groups, values, and worldviews in a community (Ingold, Stadelmann-Steffen, & Kammermann, 2018).…”

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Going beyond technocratic and democratic principles: stakeholder acceptance of instruments in Swiss energy policy

Kammermann

Ingold

2018

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This paper is about stakeholders' acceptance regarding regulatory instruments in energy policy. We expect that today's introduced instruments not only correspond most to technocratic principles and what elected officials prefer, but that they correlate with the preferences of a wider number of public and private actors in policymaking. We therefore compare the already introduced policy instruments to instrument preferences of the public administration, elected officials, but also NGOs, and utilities. In doing so, we contribute to the question of whether or not the instruments already introduced today correspond to technocratic or democratic principles, or to the preferences of the larger governance arrangement involving other public and private actors. We compare three cantons in Switzerland and gather data through a systematic literature review, expert interviews and surveys. The comparison of the data suggests that the currently selected policy instruments correspond to technocratic principles, but that they also and often correspond to the preferences of public and private actors. More concretely, whereas in one canton NGO preferences align with the introduced instruments, in another canton, this is the case for utilities. In the third canton, all different actor types display similar preferences very much in accordance with the currently employed instrument mix. We thus conclude that depending on the region, different principles and preferences are reflected in the current policy mix.

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“…Such work could be also conducted in other countries and, especially in the case of developing regions with higher equity concerns [26,27], the final outcomes of the game could be very different. After all, the game only focused on the general citizen preferences for electricity technologies and their siting, whereas future work could explore interlinkages with local acceptance [49,50], the spatial dimensions of community or market acceptance [75], as well as acceptance of related policy instruments [76].…”

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Efficiency versus Equity in Spatial Siting of Electricity Generation: Citizen Preferences in a Serious Board Game in Switzerland

2020

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Energy transitions around the world will change the spatial fingerprint of the electricity sector, but there is a lack of studies on citizen preferences for siting the future mix of electricity technologies. Using the case of Switzerland in 2035, we present a serious board game to form and elicit citizen preferences for spatial siting of a full mix of electricity technologies and we test this game with 44 participants in the city of Zurich. The game proves to help elicit valid preferences of the participants and lead to measurable learning effects about this complex, multi-dimensional topic. The results show that these 44 participants prefer a diverse mix of renewable technologies for Switzerland in 2035. In terms of siting, these participants consistently choose the efficiency strategy, where new plants are concentrated in the areas where they produce most electricity at least cost, in contrast to the strategy of regional equity, where all Swiss regions would equally build new generation and share the benefits and burdens of the energy transition.

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The acceptance of instruments in instrument mix situations: Citizens’ perspective on Swiss energy transition

Cited by 37 publications

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Public opinion in policy contexts. A comparative analysis of domestic energy policies and individual policy preferences in Europe

Public opinion in policy contexts. A comparative analysis of domestic energy policies and individual policy preferences in Europe

Going beyond technocratic and democratic principles: stakeholder acceptance of instruments in Swiss energy policy

Efficiency versus Equity in Spatial Siting of Electricity Generation: Citizen Preferences in a Serious Board Game in Switzerland

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