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DOI	10.1007/s10584-024-03709-2
	How does an economic shock affect environmental attitudes, preferences and issue importance? Evidence from Switzerland
	Rudolph, Lukas; Gomm, Sarah
发表日期	2024
ISSN	0165-0009
EISSN	1573-1480
起始页码	177
结束页码	4
卷号	177 期号:4
英文摘要	How do economic shocks affect pressure by the mass public for pro-environmental political action? If democratic systems are to develop and sustain ambitious environmental policy over several decades, this question is important to answer. Theoretically, we argue to look beyond changes in attitudes such as environmental concern, and trace whether and how citizen's policy preferences, and the political importance they attach to environment-related issues change when experiencing a deterioration of their personal economic situation. Empirically, we draw on high-quality population-representative panel survey data for an affluent country, Switzerland, combining tailored survey measures for quasi-random Corona-related employment and income losses, nuanced measures of environmental attitudes and policy preferences, and recently developed measures for issue importance. We neither find a decline of environmental policy support among economically affected individuals compared to the rest of the population (a population wide drop, however), nor lower importance given to environment related relative to economic issues in voting decisions. While this suggests that politicians need not fear electoral losses when pursuing environmental policies in times of economic crisis, we note that the severe extent of the Covid-induced recession, coupled with a rapid recovery, is peculiar to this economic crisis and warrants further research regarding the generalizability of our findings to economic shocks of longer duration.
英文关键词	Economic shock; Covid-19; Environmental concern; Environmental voting; Issue importance; Panel data; Survey experiment
语种	英语
WOS研究方向	Environmental Sciences & Ecology ; Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences
WOS类目	Environmental Sciences ; Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences
WOS记录号	WOS:001190967100002
来源期刊	CLIMATIC CHANGE
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/296672
作者单位	University of Konstanz; Swiss Federal Institutes of Technology Domain; ETH Zurich
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Rudolph, Lukas,Gomm, Sarah. How does an economic shock affect environmental attitudes, preferences and issue importance? Evidence from Switzerland[J],2024,177(4).
APA	Rudolph, Lukas,&Gomm, Sarah.(2024).How does an economic shock affect environmental attitudes, preferences and issue importance? Evidence from Switzerland.CLIMATIC CHANGE,177(4).
MLA	Rudolph, Lukas,et al."How does an economic shock affect environmental attitudes, preferences and issue importance? Evidence from Switzerland".CLIMATIC CHANGE 177.4(2024).