Is There a Link between Welfare Regime and Attitudes toward Climate Policy Instruments?

Sivonen, Jukka; Kukkonen, Iida

doi:10.1177/0731121421990053

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“…Therefore, it seems that at the individual level, there is complementarity between preferences for climate and social policies in industrialized countries. This is in line with the results of Fairbrother (2016) and Sivonen and Kukkonen (2021). However, this coefficient is negative and insignificant among the MICs (Models 1, 2).…”

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The Effects of Social Protection and Social Cohesion on the Acceptability of Climate Change Mitigation Policies: What Do We (Not) Know in the Context of Low- and Middle-Income Countries?

Malerba

2022

Eur J Dev Res

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Significant climate change mitigation policies are urgently needed to achieve emissions reduction targets. This paper shows that social protection and social cohesion play a critical role in making climate policies more acceptable to citizens by summarizing existing streams of research focusing on industrialized countries. Further, the empirical analysis explores whether these relationships also hold for low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), which are increasingly implementing climate change mitigation policies. The results show that vertical and horizontal trust increase acceptability in all countries. However, preferences for social protection have a positive effect only in industrialized ones. This may suggest a contrast between social and environmental goals in LMICs, where social goals are prioritized. The analysis also revealed a significant interaction between social cohesion and social protection. The paper concludes by discussing the existing research gap as to LMICs and outlines policy options to overcome the conflict between social and environmental goals.

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The Effects of Social Protection and Social Cohesion on the Acceptability of Climate Change Mitigation Policies: What Do We (Not) Know in the Context of Low- and Middle-Income Countries?

Malerba

2022

Eur J Dev Res

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“…And they are strong welfare states. Research shows that there is a link between welfare regimes introduced at the state level and positive attitudes toward climate policy at the local level (Sivonen and Kukkonen, 2021), especially when it comes to ecotaxes. The nexus is rather logical; better life conditions (i.e., national health care, better salaries, free education, etc.)…”

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Climate change: Comparing “green” and “polluting” nation-states

Posocco

McNeill²

2023

Front. Sociol.

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Some nation-states, i.e., Norway, Sweden, and Denmark, repeatedly score the highest in environmental indicators such as the Environmental Performance Index (EPI) and the Climate Change Performance Index (CCPI). Their cities win environmental awards; they have well-developed recycling systems; they perform well with biodegradable waste; and their citizens show awareness of environmental problems, protesting publicly and even sueing their governing bodies if they don't do the same. For these and other reasons, recent scholarship defined these countries as “exemplary” green nation-states. The question is, which factors pushed them toward the green transition faster than others? And overall, what stops top polluting countries such as China, the United States and Russia from walking the same path? This article attempts to answer these questions by looking at climate change through a theoretical framework based on theories of nationalism and case studies of green nation-states. It compares three of said top polluting countries, China, the United States, and Russia, with “exemplary” green nation-states, and argues that the pace of greener nation-states rests on (1) a tradition of ecologism and environmentalism rooted in the long run, (2) the lock in of “green nationalism,” a form of nationalism grounded on sustainability, (3) free and effective environmental movements, (4) inclusivity and welfare, and (5) a sense of national pride in environmental achievements. The available evidence seems to suggest that top polluting nation-states lack one or more of these factors.

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“…Authors study whether climate changes can have regressive effect on different economic sections of the society in [25]. A study of how welfare and climate policies can complement each other has been studied in [26]. [11] studies the impact of consumption taxes instead of taxing incomes with low taxes on essentials and high taxes non-essentials.…”

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Economic Dynamics of Agents

Das¹

2023

Preprint

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Post-pandemic world has thrown up several challenges, such as, high inflation, low growth, high debt, collapse of economies, political instability, job losses, lowering of income in addition to damages caused natural disasters, more convincing attributed to climate change, apart from existing inequalities. Efforts are being made to mitigate these challenges at various levels. To the best of the knowledge of the author, most of the prior researches have focussed on specific scenarios, use cases, inter-relationships between couple of sectors and more so on optimal policies, such as, impact of carbon tax on individuals, interaction between taxes and welfare, etc. However, not much effort have been made to understand the actual impact on individual agents due to diverse policy changes and how agents cope with changing economic dynamics. This paper considers progressive deteriorating conditions of increase in expense, degrading environmental utility, increase in taxation, decrease in welfare and lowering of income with recourse to inherited properties, credits and return on investments, and tries to understand how the agents cope with the changing situations using an agent based model with matrices related to savings, credits, assets. Results indicate that collapse of agents' economic conditions can be quite fast, sudden and drastic for all income groups in most cases.

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Is There a Link between Welfare Regime and Attitudes toward Climate Policy Instruments?

Cited by 11 publications

References 79 publications

The Effects of Social Protection and Social Cohesion on the Acceptability of Climate Change Mitigation Policies: What Do We (Not) Know in the Context of Low- and Middle-Income Countries?

The Effects of Social Protection and Social Cohesion on the Acceptability of Climate Change Mitigation Policies: What Do We (Not) Know in the Context of Low- and Middle-Income Countries?

Climate change: Comparing “green” and “polluting” nation-states

Economic Dynamics of Agents

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