Interests, Norms, and Support for the Provision of Global Public Goods: The Case of Climate Cooperation
Journal
British journal of political science
ISSN
0007-1234
ISSN-Digital
1469-2112
Type
forthcoming
Date Issued
2017-07-11
Author(s)
Abstract
Mitigating climate change requires countries to provide a global public good. This means that the domestic cleavages underlying mass attitudes toward international climate policy are a central determinant of its provision. We argue that the industry-specific costs of emission abatement and internalized social norms help explain support for climate policy. To evaluate our predictions we develop novel measures of industry-specific interests by cross-referencing individuals’ sectors of employment and objective industry-level pollution data and employing quasi-behavioral measures of social norms in combination with both correlational and conjoint-experimental data. We find that individuals working in pollutive industries are 7 percentage points less likely to support climate cooperation than individuals employed in cleaner sectors. Our results also suggest that reciprocal and altruistic individuals are about 10 percentage points more supportive of global climate policy. These findings indicate that both interests and norms function as complementary explanations that improve our under- standing of individual policy preferences.
Language
English
HSG Classification
contribution to scientific community
HSG Profile Area
None
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Publisher place
London
Number
Forthcoming
Subject(s)
Division(s)
Eprints ID
249952
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