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INTERNATIONAL POLITICAL SCIENCE REVIEW
Volume 42, Issue 1, Pages 78-94Publisher
SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD
DOI: 10.1177/0192512120913047
Keywords
Environmental policy; political attitudes; energy policy; policy preferences
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- Leibniz Association (Project 'DominoES')
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The study found that individuals with strong climate change attitudes and high levels of political trust exhibit positive policy feedback in the current energy policy context, which may hinder or facilitate the energy transition depending on each country's policy landscape.
Recent research and real-world processes suggest that effective climate change mitigation policies are not feasible without at least a certain degree of public support. Hence, we investigate the link between existing domestic energy policies and individual policy instrument preferences in 21 European countries. We assume a policy feedback perspective and, thus, start from the idea that the current domestic energy context influences what future policies are possible and preferred by citizens. High political trust and strong climate change attitudes are expected to strengthen this relationship. Our results do not lend support to a general link between existing policies and future policy preferences. However, we find evidence of a positive policy feedback in individuals with strong climate change attitudes and/or high levels of political trust, which, depending on each country's current energy policy, either hinders or facilitates the energy transition.
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