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The Role of Government in Protecting the Environment: Quality of Government and the Translation of Normative Views about Government Responsibility into Spending Preferences
International Journal of Sociology Pub Date : 2019-03-04 , DOI: 10.1080/00207659.2019.1582964
Joakim Kulin 1 , Ingemar Johansson Sevä 1
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While it is becoming increasingly evident that environmental problems such as climate change and global warming constitute existential threats to human societies, these problems will very likely persist and even intensify unless governments enact effective and potentially costly environmental policies. However, government policies and spending ultimately rely on public support, thus underscoring the need to increase present knowledge about the processes underlying citizens' policy attitudes. In this study, we focus on the relationship between citizens' normative views about government responsibility and their support for government spending on the environment. While people who think that, as a general principle, it ought to be the government's responsibility to protect the environment should be more likely to support increasing government spending on the environment, we argue that this relationship is dependent on the quality of government. Using multilevel analysis and data from the most recent ISSP “Role of Government” module, we show that people who think that it is the government's responsibility to protect the environment are more likely to support increasing government spending on the environment in countries where government institutions are fair, effective, and non-corrupt. This suggests that the role of government in protecting the environment stretches far beyond designing effective environmental policies, since an overall ineffective and corrupt government appears to undermine public support for critical environmental policymaking.

中文翻译:

政府在保护环境中的作用:政府质量和关于政府责任的规范观点转化为支出偏好

虽然气候变化和全球变暖等环境问题对人类社会构成生存威胁日益明显,但除非政府制定有效且可能代价高昂的环境政策,否则这些问题很可能会持续存在甚至加剧。然而,政府的政策和支出最终依赖于公众的支持,因此强调需要增加对公民政策态度背后过程的现有知识。在这项研究中,我们关注公民对政府责任的规范看法与他们对政府环境支出的支持之间的关系。虽然人们认为,作为一般原则,应该是政府” 保护环境的责任应该更有可能支持增加政府在环境方面的支出,我们认为这种关系取决于政府的质量。使用来自最新 ISSP“政府角色”模块的多层次分析和数据,我们表明,认为政府有责任保护环境的人更有可能支持政府机构增加政府在环境方面的支出。公平、有效、廉洁。这表明政府在保护环境方面的作用远远超出了设计有效的环境政策,因为一个整体无效和腐败的政府似乎削弱了公众对关键环境决策的支持。我们认为,这种关系取决于政府的质量。使用来自最新 ISSP“政府角色”模块的多层次分析和数据,我们表明,认为政府有责任保护环境的人更有可能支持政府机构增加政府在环境方面的支出。公平、有效、廉洁。这表明政府在保护环境方面的作用远远超出了设计有效环境政策的范围,因为整体无效和腐败的政府似乎削弱了公众对关键环境决策的支持。我们认为,这种关系取决于政府的质量。使用来自最新 ISSP“政府角色”模块的多层次分析和数据,我们表明,认为政府有责任保护环境的人更有可能支持政府机构增加政府在环境方面的支出。公平、有效、廉洁。这表明政府在保护环境方面的作用远远超出了设计有效环境政策的范围,因为整体无效和腐败的政府似乎削弱了公众对关键环境决策的支持。我们表明,在政府机构公平、有效和廉洁的国家,认为保护环境是政府责任的人更有可能支持增加政府在环境方面的支出。这表明政府在保护环境方面的作用远远超出了设计有效环境政策的范围,因为整体无效和腐败的政府似乎削弱了公众对关键环境决策的支持。我们表明,在政府机构公平、有效和廉洁的国家,认为保护环境是政府责任的人更有可能支持增加政府在环境方面的支出。这表明政府在保护环境方面的作用远远超出了设计有效环境政策的范围,因为整体无效和腐败的政府似乎削弱了公众对关键环境决策的支持。
更新日期:2019-03-04
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