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Dividing the pie in the eco-social state: Exploring the relationship between public support for environmental and welfare policies
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Abstract Recent theoretical literature in social policy argued that climate change posed a new risk to the states and called for transformation from a traditional welfare state to an ‘eco’ state. From a theoretical point of view, different welfare regimes may manage environmental/climate change risks in a si... view more
Recent theoretical literature in social policy argued that climate change posed a new risk to the states and called for transformation from a traditional welfare state to an ‘eco’ state. From a theoretical point of view, different welfare regimes may manage environmental/climate change risks in a similar way to social risks. However, not much has been done to explore the issue empirically. To this end, this paper aims to investigate public attitudes towards environmental and traditional welfare policies given that environmental change is a new social risk the welfare states have to address. Do individuals that care for one area also care for the other? That is, do the preferences in these two policy spheres complement or substitute one another? We test these hypotheses both at the individual- and country-level, using data from 14 countries included in all three waves (1993, 2000, and 2010) of the environmental module in the International Social Survey Programme. Specifically, we investigate the relationship between attitudes towards income redistribution (indicator of support for welfare policy) and willingness to pay for environmental protection (indicator of support for environmental policy). Our findings suggest that attitudes in the two areas are substitutes in the total sample, but that the relationship is very small and only statistically significant in some specifications. When we explore country differentials, we observe clear heterogeneity in the relationship, which can be explained by differences in political and historical contexts across countries.... view less
Keywords
environment; environmental protection; climate change; attitude; attitude research; welfare state; inequality; redistribution of income; willingness to pay; ISSP
Classification
Ecology, Environment
Political Process, Elections, Political Sociology, Political Culture
Free Keywords
Cross-national; environmental attitudes; ISSP 1993 (ZA No. 2450); ISSP 2000 (ZA No. 3440); ISSP 2010 (ZA No. 5500)
Document language
English
Publication Year
2018
Page/Pages
p. 313-339
Journal
Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space, 36 (2018) 2
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1177/2399654417711448
ISSN
2399-6552
Status
Published Version; peer reviewed