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DOI	10.1080/14693062.2018.1547181
	The significance of political culture, economic context and instrument type for climate policy support: a cross-national study
	Harring N.; Jagers S.C.; Matti S.
发表日期	2019
ISSN	14693062
起始页码	636
结束页码	650
卷号	19 期号:5
英文摘要	While many countries have pledged to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, the choice of national climate policy measures demonstrates widespread variation. Although system of government, path-dependency and economic entanglements can explain a certain amount of variation in policy choice, research also points specifically towards the highly politicized nature of climate policy instruments and their sensitivity to public support as explanatory factors for cross-national differences. Previous studies hypothesize that various country-specific contextual factors determine both general preferences for environmental protection and the public’s preferences for different types of policy instruments. One suggestion is that countries’ prevailing political cultures have significant consequences for such public support. Another supposition is that, since countries differ in their economic dependency on climate detrimental industry such as fossil fuel production, this should be a significant factor determining both public attitudes and subsequent political decisions. This paper applies unique, original data from four countries with significant variation in (i) political-cultural contexts (Sweden and Norway vs New Zealand and Australia and (ii) economic dependency (Norway and Australia vs Sweden and New Zealand) to analyze how, and to what extent, these two contextual variables interact with, and moderate, the effect of individual-level factors on support for climate policy measures in the four countries. Furthermore, the paper explores variations in support for different types of CO 2 taxes (directed towards individual consumers, industry, and fossil-fuel producers) in the four countries. Key policy insights Across contexts, public policy support is lower for taxes directed towards private consumption than for taxes directed towards industry, and the strongest for CO 2 taxes on fossil fuel producing industry. Political culture and economic context influence the effect of individual-level factors on policy support. In a context of high economic dependency on the fossil-fuel industry, people are less likely to support the introduction of CO 2 taxes. The effect of left-right ideology on policy support is sensitive to political-cultural context. © 2018, © 2018 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.
英文关键词	climate; CO 2 tax; comparative; economic dependency; policy; political culture
语种	英语
scopus关键词	carbon dioxide; carbon emission; comparative study; emission control; environmental economics; environmental policy; environmental protection; pollution tax; Australia; New Zealand; Norway; Sweden
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/153404
作者单位	Centre for Collective Action Research (CeCAR), Department of Political Science, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden; Political Science Unit, Luleå University of Technology, Luleå, Sweden
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Harring N.,Jagers S.C.,Matti S.. The significance of political culture, economic context and instrument type for climate policy support: a cross-national study[J],2019,19(5).
APA	Harring N.,Jagers S.C.,&Matti S..(2019).The significance of political culture, economic context and instrument type for climate policy support: a cross-national study.Climate Policy,19(5).
MLA	Harring N.,et al."The significance of political culture, economic context and instrument type for climate policy support: a cross-national study".Climate Policy 19.5(2019).