Citizen assemblies can enhance political feasibility of ambitious climate policies
| Autor: | Lukas Paul Fesenfeld, Lennart Kuntze |
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| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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Polymers and Plastics media_common.quotation_subject Climate change Public administration Climate policy Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering Democracy Test (assessment) Politics Action (philosophy) Political science Business and International Management Public support media_common Public awareness |
| Zdroj: | SSRN Electronic Journal. |
| ISSN: | 1556-5068 |
| DOI: | 10.2139/ssrn.3918532 |
| Popis: | Public surveys suggest that the majority of citizens in most democratic countries is in favor of more ambitious action on climate change. Yet, policymakers still hesitate to propose ambitious but costly climate policies because they fear public backlash. Randomly sampled citizen assemblies are promoted as a way to increase the political feasibility of ambitious but costly climate policies. To test this claim, we conducted a representative survey (n = 1,252), survey-embedded conjoint experiment (n = 624), and semi-structured interviews with a survey sub-sample (n = 41) in Germany. Our key finding is that, in Germany, a citizen assembly can increase public support for climate policies. However, this positive effect is strongly dependent on how the citizen assembly is designed and on the degree of public awareness and informedness about the assembly. We provide recommendations for informing about and designing citizen assemblies to enhance the political feasibility of ambitious climate policies. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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