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DOI	10.1038/s41558-023-01789-z
	Exposure to international trade lowers green voting and worsens environmental attitudes
	Bez, Charlotte; Bosetti, Valentina; Colantone, Italo; Zanardi, Maurizio
发表日期	2023
ISSN	1758-678X
EISSN	1758-6798
英文摘要	From a political perspective, advancing green agendas in democracies requires obtaining electoral support for parties and candidates proposing green platforms. It is therefore crucial to understand the factors driving green voting and attitudes. Yet, limited research has explored the role of economic determinants in this context. In this study we show that globalization, through the distributional consequences of import competition, is an important determinant of support for parties proposing green platforms. Our analysis covers the United States and 15 countries of Western Europe, over the period 2000-2019, with trade exposure measured at the level of subnational geographic areas. We find that higher trade exposure leads to lower support for more environmentalist parties and to more sceptical attitudes about climate change. Our empirical findings are in line with the theoretical channel of deprioritization of environmental concerns, as trade-induced economic distress raises the salience of economic issues. Climate policy requires proenvironment attitudes and voting by the public in democracies, yet economic conditions can impact such perceptions and behaviour. Higher exposure to globalization can lead to lower support for environmentalist parties and more climate scepticism.
英文关键词	IMPORT COMPETITION; CLIMATE-CHANGE; POLARIZATION; MECHANISMS
WOS研究方向	Environmental Sciences ; Environmental Studies ; Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences
WOS记录号	WOS:001066039100002
来源期刊	Nature Climate Change
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/282371
作者单位	Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna; Potsdam Institut fur Klimafolgenforschung; Bocconi University; Centro Euro-Mediterraneo sui Cambiamenti Climatici (CMCC); Ifo Institut; Fondazione Mattei; University of Surrey
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Bez, Charlotte,Bosetti, Valentina,Colantone, Italo,et al. Exposure to international trade lowers green voting and worsens environmental attitudes[J],2023.
APA	Bez, Charlotte,Bosetti, Valentina,Colantone, Italo,&Zanardi, Maurizio.(2023).Exposure to international trade lowers green voting and worsens environmental attitudes.Nature Climate Change.
MLA	Bez, Charlotte,et al."Exposure to international trade lowers green voting and worsens environmental attitudes".Nature Climate Change (2023).