The social contract has long been used to describe the advantages of individual submission to the body politic. Although a considerable focus has been dedicated to the individual affordances of the social contract, less attention has been paid to the factors that condition individuals' willingness to sacrifice for the collective. For scholars of political science, it is useful to understand the social contract's enabling factors, those conditions which motivate constituent support for public policies and influence citizens' willingness to limit individual freedoms in exchange for greater social security and assurances of collective wellbeing. In this paper, it is theorized that citizens lend their trust to public institutions to enable a social contract. Further, it is hypothesized that individuals who exhibit stronger enabling factors are more likely to contribute to a global conceptualization of the social contract that is committed to international climate policy objectives. Toward that end, an exploratory and descriptive analysis of several existing data sets examines the relationship between the enabling factors of public trust and the outcomes of environmental policy to survey the strength of variable associations that condition support for international climate policy commitments necessary to maintaining a contemporary social contract (CSC).

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当代社会契约：对影响发达国家气候政策难处理性的有利因素的探索

长期以来，社会契约一直被用来描述个人服从政治体的好处。尽管相当多的注意力集中在社会契约的个人可供性上，但很少有人关注影响个人愿意为集体牺牲的因素。对于政治学学者来说，了解社会契约的促成因素是有用的，那些激发选民支持公共政策并影响公民限制个人自由以换取更大的社会保障和集体福祉保障的意愿的条件。在本文中，从理论上讲，公民将信任借给公共机构以实现社会契约。此外，假设表现出更强促成因素的个人更有可能为致力于国际气候政策目标的社会契约的全球概念化做出贡献。为此，