RT Journal Article
T1 What explains public support for climate policies? A review of empirical and experimental studies.
A1 Drews, Stefan
A1 van den Bergh, Jeroen
K1 Cambios climáticos - Opinión pública
K1 Cambios climáticos - Derecho y legislación
K1 Justicia ambiental
AB 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, we provide a cross-disciplinary overview of empirical and experimental research on public attitudes and preferences that has emerged in the last few years. The various factors influencing policy support are divided into three general categories: (1) social-psychological factors and climate change perception, such as the positive influences of left-wing political orientation, egalitarian worldviews, environmental and self-transcendent values, climate change knowledge, risk perception, or emotions like interest and hope; (2) the perception of climate policy and its design, which includes, among others, the preference of pull over push measures, the positive role of perceived policy effectiveness, the level of policy costs, as well as the positive effect of perceived policy fairness and the recycling of potential policy revenues; (3) contextual factors, such as the positive influence of social trust, norms and participation, wider economic, political and geographical aspects, or the different effects of specific media events and communications. Finally, we discuss the findings and provide suggestions for future research.
PB Taylor & Francis
YR 2015
FD 2015
LK https://hdl.handle.net/10630/32890
UL https://hdl.handle.net/10630/32890
LA eng
NO Política de acceso abierto tomada de: https://v2.sherpa.ac.uk/id/publication/12766
DS RIUMA. Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Málaga
RD 3 mar 2026