We explore the relationship between welfare regime and climate policy attitudes. The synergy hypothesis suggests that social and environmental policies can reinforce each other. Thus, more universal and generous welfare state model (i.e., welfare regime) is said to provide especially fertile ground for advancing climate policies. Using multilevel modeling and European Social Survey Round 8 data (including 23 countries in Europe and Israel), we test whether this hypothesis applies at the attitudinal level. Moreover, we hypothesize that country-level political trust predicts support for climate policy instruments. The study focuses on three instruments: fossil fuel taxation, subsidizing renewable energy, and banning energy-inefficient household appliances. The results indicate that welfare regime is significantly related to attitudes toward taxation, but less significantly toward subsidizing and banning. Political trust predicted support for all instruments, but the effect was particularly strong for taxation. The results highlight the importance of welfare structures in climate politics.

我们探讨了福利制度与气候政策态度之间的关系。协同作用假说表明，社会和环境政策可以相互促进。因此，据说更为普遍和慷慨的福利国家模型（即福利制度）为推进气候政策提供了特别肥沃的土壤。使用多层建模和欧洲社会调查第8轮数据（包括欧洲和以色列的23个国家/地区），我们测试了该假设是否在态度上适用。此外，我们假设国家一级的政治信任可以预测对气候政策工具的支持。该研究集中在三种手段上：化石燃料税，补贴可再生能源以及禁止低能耗的家用电器。结果表明，福利制度与税收态度密切相关，但对补贴和禁令的意义不大。政治信任预示了对所有文书的支持，但对税收的影响尤其强烈。结果突出了福利结构在气候政治中的重要性。