What explains public support for climate policies? A review of empirical and experimental studies

S Drews, JCJM Van den Bergh - Climate policy, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
The lack of broad public support prevents the implementation of effective climate policies.
This article aims to examine why citizens support or reject climate policies. For this purpose …

Attitudes toward climate change mitigation policies: a review of measures and a construct of policy attitudes

E Kyselá, M Ščasný, I Zvěřinová - Climate Policy, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
Research on policy support or public acceptability of climate change policies is proliferating.
There is, however, a great diversity in how these evaluative responses have been defined …

French attitudes on climate change, carbon taxation and other climate policies

T Douenne, A Fabre - Ecological Economics, 2020 - Elsevier
This paper aims to assess the prospects for French climate policies after the Yellow Vests
crisis halted the planned increase in the carbon tax. From a large representative survey, we …

Green nudges: Do they work? Are they ethical?

C Schubert - Ecological economics, 2017 - Elsevier
Environmental policies are increasingly informed by behavioral economics insights.'Green
nudges' in particular have been suggested as a promising new tool to encourage …

Political orientation, environmental values, and climate change beliefs and attitudes: An empirical cross country analysis

A Ziegler - Energy Economics, 2017 - Elsevier
Based on unique data from representative computer-based surveys among more than 3400
citizens, this paper empirically examines the determinants of several climate change beliefs …

Exploring citizen support for different types of climate policy

E Rhodes, J Axsen, M Jaccard - Ecological Economics, 2017 - Elsevier
Citizen support for climate policies is considered an important criterion in climate policy-
making. While there is a growing body of literature exploring factors of citizen support, most …

Cross-national analysis of attitudes towards fossil fuel subsidy removal

N Harring, E Jönsson, S Matti, G Mundaca… - Nature Climate …, 2023 - nature.com
In 2021, governments of 51 countries spent US $697 billion on subsidizing fossil fuels.
Removing fossil fuel subsidies is crucial not only for reducing CO2 emissions and making …

[HTML][HTML] The role of trust in citizen acceptance of climate policy: Comparing perceptions of government competence, integrity and value similarity

S Kitt, J Axsen, Z Long, E Rhodes - Ecological Economics, 2021 - Elsevier
This study examines the role of citizen trust in explaining climate policy support, using the
case of low-carbon transportation policies in Canada–namely a carbon tax, electric vehicle …

Household acceptability of energy efficiency policies in the European Union: Policy characteristics trade-offs and the role of trust in government and environmental …

C Faure, MC Guetlein, J Schleich, G Tu… - Ecological …, 2022 - Elsevier
This research investigates the acceptability of energy efficiency policies among European
households. Based on large-scale surveys in Italy, Poland, Sweden, and the UK, we use a …

RETRACTED ARTICLE: Pushing low-carbon mobility: a survey experiment on the public acceptance of disruptive policy packages

A Thaller, M Wicki, E Fleiß, R Maier, A Posch - Climate Policy, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
We, the Editor [s] and Publisher of Climate Policy, have retracted the following article: We,
the authors, Editors and Publisher of the journal Climate Policy, have retracted the following …