Combining climate, economic, and social policy builds public support for climate action in the US
Despite the gravity of the climate threat, governments around the world have struggled to pass and implement climate policies. Today, politicians and advocates are championing a new idea: linking climate policy to other economic and social reforms. Will this approach generate greater public support...
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| description | Despite the gravity of the climate threat, governments around the world have struggled to pass and implement climate policies. Today, politicians and advocates are championing a new idea: linking climate policy to other economic and social reforms. Will this approach generate greater public support for climate action? Here, we test this coalition-building strategy. Using two conjoint experiments on a representative sample of 2,476 Americans, we evaluate the marginal impact of 40 different climate, social, and economic policies on support for climate reforms. Overall, we find climate policy bundles that include social and economic reforms such as affordable housing, a $15 minimum wage, or a job guarantee increase US public support for climate mitigation. Clean energy standards, regardless of which technologies are included, also make climate policy more popular. Linking climate policy to economic and social issues is particularly effective at expanding climate policy support among people of color. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-22e060e068414f08b3b8f3f7b3d14a102023-08-09T15:06:09ZengIOP PublishingEnvironmental Research Letters1748-93262020-01-0115505401910.1088/1748-9326/ab81c1Combining climate, economic, and social policy builds public support for climate action in the USParrish Bergquist0https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0572-4764Matto Mildenberger1Leah C Stokes2School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, Yale University , 195 Prospect Street, New Haven, CT 06511, United States of America; Authors contributed equally and are listed in alphabetical order.; Author to whom any correspondence should be addressed.Department of Political Science, University of California Santa Barbara , Santa Barbara, CA 93106-9420, United States of AmericaDepartment of Political Science, University of California Santa Barbara , Santa Barbara, CA 93106-9420, United States of AmericaDespite the gravity of the climate threat, governments around the world have struggled to pass and implement climate policies. Today, politicians and advocates are championing a new idea: linking climate policy to other economic and social reforms. Will this approach generate greater public support for climate action? Here, we test this coalition-building strategy. Using two conjoint experiments on a representative sample of 2,476 Americans, we evaluate the marginal impact of 40 different climate, social, and economic policies on support for climate reforms. Overall, we find climate policy bundles that include social and economic reforms such as affordable housing, a $15 minimum wage, or a job guarantee increase US public support for climate mitigation. Clean energy standards, regardless of which technologies are included, also make climate policy more popular. Linking climate policy to economic and social issues is particularly effective at expanding climate policy support among people of color.https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ab81c1green new dealclimatepoliticseconomysocial policypolicy bundling |
| spellingShingle | Parrish Bergquist Matto Mildenberger Leah C Stokes Combining climate, economic, and social policy builds public support for climate action in the US Environmental Research Letters green new deal climate politics economy social policy policy bundling |
| title | Combining climate, economic, and social policy builds public support for climate action in the US |
| title_full | Combining climate, economic, and social policy builds public support for climate action in the US |
| title_fullStr | Combining climate, economic, and social policy builds public support for climate action in the US |
| title_full_unstemmed | Combining climate, economic, and social policy builds public support for climate action in the US |
| title_short | Combining climate, economic, and social policy builds public support for climate action in the US |
| title_sort | combining climate economic and social policy builds public support for climate action in the us |
| topic | green new deal climate politics economy social policy policy bundling |
| url | https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ab81c1 |
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