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The contingent effects of environmental concern and ideology: institutional context and people’s willingness to pay environmental taxes
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Abstract Environmental taxes are often argued to be key to more effective environmental protection. People’s willingness to pay such taxes in contexts with varying levels of quality of government (QoG) is investigated. Applying multilevel analyses on data from the International Social Survey Programme (ISSP)... view more
Environmental taxes are often argued to be key to more effective environmental protection. People’s willingness to pay such taxes in contexts with varying levels of quality of government (QoG) is investigated. Applying multilevel analyses on data from the International Social Survey Programme (ISSP) and the QoG Institute, links between environmental concern, ideology, and QoG are explored. The results show that people who state that they are concerned about environmental issues and live in high QoG countries are more willing than people in low QoG countries to pay environmental taxes. Moreover, people in low QoG countries holding leftist political value orientations are less willing to pay environmental taxes than rightists and other value groups. Environmental concern and leftist political ideology are more important drivers of public support for environmental taxes in high QoG countries than in low QoG countries.... view less
Keywords
political ideology; willingness to pay; government; taxation; environment; environmental protection; confidence
Classification
Ecology, Environment
Public Finance
Free Keywords
environmental concern; left-right ideology; political trust; quality of government; ZA5500 v2.0.0: International Social Survey Programme: Environment III - ISSP 2010
Document language
English
Publication Year
2020
Page/Pages
p. 674-696
Journal
Environmental Politics, 29 (2020) 4
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1080/09644016.2019.1606882
ISSN
1743-8934
Status
Published Version; peer reviewed
Licence
Creative Commons - Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0