Climate and Environmental Policy Between Responsiveness and Responsibility
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2018
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Policymakers are under pressure to provide far-reaching policy responses in order to limit negative consequences of climate change. However, these policymakers face a dilemma. On the one hand, politicians should be responsive to citizens’ needs and preferences. On the other hand, they should implement responsible climate mitigation policies that could clash with these needs and preferences. Understanding this trade-off is important in the context of representative democracy and its critics. Therefore, chapters 2 and 3 of this dissertation examine how the perceptions of elite responsiveness shape support for climate and environmental policy whereas chapters 4 and 5 assess how citizens react to responsible policies. The findings suggest that support for climate and environmental
policy is quite high and citizens are willing to follow governmental policies. However, the recent populist surge might provide an additional obstacle to far-reaching climate and environmental policies.
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ETH Zurich
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03446 - Bernauer, Thomas / Bernauer, Thomas
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295456 - Sources of Legitimacy in Global Environmental Governance (EC)