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Mass support for global climate agreements depends on institutional design

Overview of attention for article published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, July 2013
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Title
Mass support for global climate agreements depends on institutional design
Published in
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, July 2013
DOI 10.1073/pnas.1306374110
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Authors

Michael M. Bechtel, Kenneth F. Scheve

Abstract

Effective climate mitigation requires international cooperation, and these global efforts need broad public support to be sustainable over the long run. We provide estimates of public support for different types of climate agreements in France, Germany, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Using data from a large-scale experimental survey, we explore how three key dimensions of global climate cooperation--costs and distribution, participation, and enforcement--affect individuals' willingness to support these international efforts. We find that design features have significant effects on public support. Specifically, our results indicate that support is higher for global climate agreements that involve lower costs, distribute costs according to prominent fairness principles, encompass more countries, and include a small sanction if a country fails to meet its emissions reduction targets. In contrast to well-documented baseline differences in public support for climate mitigation efforts, opinion responds similarly to changes in climate policy design in all four countries. We also find that the effects of institutional design features can bring about decisive changes in the level of public support for a global climate agreement. Moreover, the results appear consistent with the view that the sensitivity of public support to design features reflects underlying norms of reciprocity and individuals' beliefs about the potential effectiveness of specific agreements.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United States 4 2%
Switzerland 2 <1%
Germany 1 <1%
Brazil 1 <1%
Unknown 234 97%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 75 31%
Student > Master 25 10%
Researcher 24 10%
Student > Bachelor 19 8%
Student > Doctoral Student 14 6%
Other 51 21%
Unknown 34 14%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 102 42%
Environmental Science 19 8%
Economics, Econometrics and Finance 19 8%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 10 4%
Earth and Planetary Sciences 7 3%
Other 37 15%
Unknown 48 20%
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