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DOI	10.1016/j.enpol.2020.111385
	Attitudes towards carbon taxes across Europe: The role of perceived uncertainty and self-interest
	Umit R.; Schaffer L.M.
发表日期	2020
ISSN	03014215
卷号	140
英文摘要	While using carbon taxes to reduce greenhouse gas emissions may well be effective, this has recently proved too unpopular to put into practice in a number of countries. Yet, at a time when governments across the world are preparing their nationally determined contributions to the Paris Agreement, our knowledge of whether and why people oppose these taxes originates from a single or small number of cases. Drawing on the European Social Survey (n = 44,387), this article provides evidence on public attitudes towards increasing taxes on fossil fuels to reduce climate change from 23 countries, most of which have never featured in the literature before. The results point to a widespread aversion to carbon taxes. On the one hand, this worsens with the perceived costs of taxes, such as the case among consumers who depend highly on energy. On the other, it improves with political trust and external political efficacy—factors that help ease the uncertainty around policy proposals. Our estimations suggest that the effect of changes in these factors alone would be large enough to reverse the public resistance to carbon taxes in some countries. These results are robust to a number of alternative specifications and various checks. © 2020 Elsevier Ltd
英文关键词	Carbon; Climate change; Emission control; Fossil fuels; Gas emissions; Greenhouse gases; Surveys; Carbon taxes; Perceived costs; Public attitudes; Social survey; Taxation; attitudinal survey; emission control; emission inventory; environmental economics; greenhouse gas; policy implementation; pollution tax; uncertainty analysis; Europe
语种	英语
来源期刊	Energy Policy
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/204897
作者单位	University of Lucerne, Frohburgstrasse 3, Postfach 4466, Lucerne, 6002, Switzerland
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Umit R.,Schaffer L.M.. Attitudes towards carbon taxes across Europe: The role of perceived uncertainty and self-interest[J],2020,140.
APA	Umit R.,&Schaffer L.M..(2020).Attitudes towards carbon taxes across Europe: The role of perceived uncertainty and self-interest.Energy Policy,140.
MLA	Umit R.,et al."Attitudes towards carbon taxes across Europe: The role of perceived uncertainty and self-interest".Energy Policy 140(2020).