Public Attitudes Toward Climate Policies: The Effect of Institutional Contexts and Political Values

摘要: Abstract This study contributes to the literature on public responses climate policies in two ways. We investigate effect of institutional contexts attitudes toward policies, and we examine relevance political values for these effects. Institutional theory suggests that context influences whether “individual rationality” (IR) or “social (SR) frames choices. To effects such aimed at reducing private car use, conducted a survey experiment involving 1500 owners Oslo, Norway. One group respondents received text emphasizing individual health gains from local air pollution (IR context), second social responsibility avoiding change (SR control no text. found emission-reducing vary across individuals with different values. The SR yielded higher support an increase petrol prices among non-individualists only. IR decrease space cars both individualists. Ways forward regarding expanding this field research are discussed.