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DOI	10.1080/14693062.2020.1792822
	Who do you trust? How trust in partial and impartial government institutions influences climate policy attitudes
	Kulin J.; Johansson Sevä I.
发表日期	2020
ISSN	14693062
起始页码	1
结束页码	14
英文摘要	While previous research shows that environmental policy attitudes depend on trust in government, existing studies have either focused exclusively on trust in politicians and democratic institutions (political trust) or conflated such measures with trust in a wider range of impartial government institutions and actors. In this study, we distinguish between trust in partial institutions that enact laws and policies on the one hand, and trust in impartial institutions that exercise government authority and enforce policies on the other, and systematically analyse their respective influence on climate policy preferences. In addition to investigating the direct influences of trust, we also focus on how trust in government institutions moderates the relationship between climate change concern and climate policy attitudes cross-nationally. Using European Social Survey data from 2016, we demonstrate that individual-level trust in both partial and impartial government institutions constitutes an important determinant of climate policy attitudes. Moreover, while we find no evidence of direct effects of trust at the country level, we demonstrate that individuals who are concerned about climate change are more likely to hold positive attitudes towards climate policies in high-trust countries, particularly where trust in impartial institutions such as the legal system and the police is high. Key policy insights Individuals’ tendency to favour climate policies depends on their trust in both partial government institutions that enact policies (e.g. parliament, politicians) and impartial institutions that enforce these policies (e.g. legal system, police). At the country level, trust in impartial institutions plays a particularly crucial role for the translation of individuals’ climate change concern into support for climate policies. A climate policy platform with broad public support not only relies on a trustworthy political system that enacts sound climate policies, but also on well-functioning and trustworthy government institutions that ultimately enforce these policies. © 2020, © 2020 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.
英文关键词	climate change concern; climate policy attitudes; European Social Survey; government institutions; political trust
语种	英语
scopus关键词	attitudinal survey; climate change; environmental legislation; environmental policy; government; law enforcement; public attitude; Europe
来源期刊	Climate Policy
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/153354
作者单位	Department of Sociology, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Kulin J.,Johansson Sevä I.. Who do you trust? How trust in partial and impartial government institutions influences climate policy attitudes[J],2020.
APA	Kulin J.,&Johansson Sevä I..(2020).Who do you trust? How trust in partial and impartial government institutions influences climate policy attitudes.Climate Policy.
MLA	Kulin J.,et al."Who do you trust? How trust in partial and impartial government institutions influences climate policy attitudes".Climate Policy (2020).