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JOURNAL OF PUBLIC POLICY
Volume 40, Issue 4, Pages 599-625Publisher
CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1017/S0143814X19000205
Keywords
ancillary measures; command-and-control measures; conjoint experiment; market-based regulation; public opinion; transportation policy
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- ERC Advanced Grant 'Sources of Legitimacy in Global Environmental Governance' [295456]
- ETH Zurich
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Public support is usually a precondition for the adoption and successful implementation of costly policies. We argue that such support is easier to achieve with policy-packages that incorporate primary and ancillary measures. We specifically distinguish command-and-control and market-based measures as primary measures and argue that the former will usually garner more public support than the latter given the low-visibility tendency of costs associated with command-and-control measures. Nevertheless, if included in a policy-package, ancillary measures are likely to increase public support by reducing negative effects of primary measures. Based on a choice experiment with a representative sample of 2,034 Swiss citizens, we assessed these arguments with respect to political efforts to reduce vehicle emissions. The empirical analysis supported the argument that policy-packaging affects public support positively, particularly generating more support when ancillary measures are added. Lastly, we ultimately observe that command-and-control measures obtain more public support than market-based instruments.
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