Climate politics: How public persuasion affects the trade-off between environmental and economic performance

Prieur, Fabien; Zou, Benteng

doi:10.1016/j.mathsocsci.2018.09.002

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“…The literature gives many examples of how water resource management is inherently political. It defends the dominant stance of water professionals in that "politics" should be removed, as politics compromises the accountability, transparency, and legitimacy of decisions made [35,[58][59][60]. However, WFD brought new challenges to politics at jurisdictional scales of operation in the form of hydrological scales prescribed for water management planning.…”

Section: Evidence-based Policy Making In the Eumentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Scientists, as experts for certain measures, may take a role in supporting or blocking coalitions, but their evaluations of water system sustainability and security are likely to be met with competing claims based on different values and expertise [62]. The importance of the public's or voters' opinions of politicians should not be undermined, as we can observe a daily battle for the truth to prevail between environmental and industrial groups [60] and between rigid ideologies generating contentious opinion exchanges and lenient liberal ideologies encouraging long-term solutions [35]. A recent study suggested that the tendency of political leaders to address environmental problems is primarily influenced by their aspiration to confirm an individual political status or conform to group norms.…”

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confidence: 99%

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How to Enhance the Role of Science in European Union Policy Making and Implementation: The Case of Agricultural Impacts on Drinking Water Quality

Glavan

Železnikar

Velthof

et al. 2019

Water

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Throughout the European Union (EU), high concentrations of nitrates and pesticides are among the major polluting components of drinking water and have potential long-term impacts on the environment and human health. Many research projects co-funded by the European Commission have been carried out, but the results often do not influence policy making and implementation to the extent that is duly justified. This paper assesses several issues and barriers that weaken the role of science in EU policy making and EU policy implementation in the case of agricultural impacts on drinking water quality. It then proposes improvements and solutions to strengthen the role of science in this process. The analysis is conceptual but supported empirically by a desk study, a workshop, and complementary individual interviews, mostly with representatives of organizations working at the EU level. The results indicate that perceived barriers are mostly observed on the national or regional level and are connected with a lack of political will, scarce instruction on the legislation implementation process, and a lack of funding opportunities for science to be included in policy making and further EU policy implementation. In response to that, we suggest translating scientific knowledge on technological, practical or environmental changes and using dissemination techniques for specific audiences and in local languages. Further, the relationship between data, information and decision making needs to change by implementing monitoring in real-time, which will allow for the quick adaptation of strategies. In addition, we suggest project clustering (science, policy, stakeholders, and citizens) to make science and research more connected to current policy challenges and stakeholder needs along with citizen involvement with an aim of establishing sustainable long-term relationships and communication flows.

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Section: Evidence-based Policy Making In the Eumentioning

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How to Enhance the Role of Science in European Union Policy Making and Implementation: The Case of Agricultural Impacts on Drinking Water Quality

Glavan

Železnikar

Velthof

et al. 2019

Water

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“…Perhaps the most interesting illustration of political lobbying nowadays is the so-called climate politics. Some theory already exists in this area (see for example Yu, 2005, and more recently Prieur and Zou, 2018). Related frameworks study environmental regulation as the equilibrium outcome of political competition between, say, industrialists vs. the environmentalists.…”

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“…As explained in the two papers cited above, the pressure groups can either directly lobby the government to induce a change in the level of the environmental legislation or indirectly by engaging in information campaigns or public persuasion.This paper is pretty much in line with the legislative environmental lobbying literature outlined above. In particular, it shares the dynamic game setting adopted in Prieur and Zou (2018), Yu (2005) being static. Our theory, however, differs from the latter in two essential ways.…”

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Uncertainty-driven symmetry-breaking and stochastic stability in a generic differential game of lobbying

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We study a 2-players stochastic differential game of lobbying. Players have opposite interests; at any date, each player invests in lobbying activities to alter the legislation, the continuous state variable of the game, in her own benefit. The payoffs are quadratic and uncertainty is driven by a Wiener process. We prove that while a symmetric Markov Perfect Equilibrium (MPE) always exists, (two) asymmetric MPE only emerge when uncertainty is large enough. In the latter case, the legislative state converges to a stationary invariant distribution. We fully characterize existence and stochastic stability of the legislative state for both types of MPE. We finally study the implications for rent dissipation asymptotically. We show in particular that while the average rent dissipation is lower with asymmetric equilibria relative to the symmetric, the former yield larger losses at the most likely asymptotic states for large enough but moderate uncertainty.

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“…More recently, researchers have pointed out that firms may prefer to avoid taking costly substantive action and instead use persuasive mechanisms to deflect regulatory pressures and influence public debate . One approach is to influence the underlying preferences of the public through indirect lobbying (Prieur & Zou, ; Yu, ). An alternative approach is to influence the beliefs of stakeholders, without changing their preferences.…”

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Merchants of doubt: Corporate political action when NGO credibility is uncertain

Chiroleu‐Assouline

Lyon

2020

Economics Manag Strategy

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The literature on special interest groups emphasizes two main influence channels: campaign contributions and informational lobbying. We introduce a third channel: providing information about the credibility of political rivals. In particular, nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) often aim to communicate scientific knowledge to policymakers, but industry-backed groups often attempt to undermine their credibility. We extend a standard signaling model of interest-group lobbying to include fixed costs of policymaker action and show that these costs make possible two mechanisms for creating doubt about the value of policy action. The first uses Bayesian persuasion to suggest the NGO may be a noncredible radical. The second involves creating an opposition think tank (TT) that acts as a possible radical, not a credible moderate. We show that the TT cannot always implement the Bayesian persuasion benchmark, and we characterize how optimal TT design varies with exogenous parameters.

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Climate politics: How public persuasion affects the trade-off between environmental and economic performance

Cited by 6 publications

References 23 publications

How to Enhance the Role of Science in European Union Policy Making and Implementation: The Case of Agricultural Impacts on Drinking Water Quality

How to Enhance the Role of Science in European Union Policy Making and Implementation: The Case of Agricultural Impacts on Drinking Water Quality

Uncertainty-driven symmetry-breaking and stochastic stability in a generic differential game of lobbying

Merchants of doubt: Corporate political action when NGO credibility is uncertain

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