气候变化领域集成服务门户(CCPortal): Are policymakers responsive to public demand in climate politics?

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DOI	10.1017/S0143814X21000088
	Are policymakers responsive to public demand in climate politics?
	Schaffer, Lena Maria; Oehl, Bianca; Bernauer, Thomas
发表日期	2022
ISSN	0143-814X
EISSN	1469-7815
起始页码	136
结束页码	164
卷号	42 期号:1
英文摘要	Normative theories of democracy agree that public demand should be the main guide in policymaking. But positive theories and related empirical research disagree about the extent to which this holds true in reality. We address this debate with an empirical focus on climate change policy. Specifically, we are interested in whether observable variation in public demand for climate change mitigation can help explain variation in adopted national climate policies. Using our own data to approximate public demand, we estimate the responsiveness of policymakers to changes in public demand in six OECD countries from 1995 to 2010. We find that policymakers are responsive and react in predicted ways to variation in our opinion component of measured public demand, rather than to the mere salience of the climate issue. The effect of issue salience is strongest in combination with our opinion measure as this creates a scope for action. The results underscore the importance and usefulness of our concept and empirical measures for public demand, as well as of our disaggregated analysis of climate policy outputs in this area.
英文关键词	climate change policy; comparative politics; issue salience; policy responsiveness; public demand
语种	英语
WOS研究方向	Political Science ; Public Administration
WOS类目	Social Science Citation Index (SSCI)
WOS记录号	WOS:000764003800009
来源期刊	JOURNAL OF PUBLIC POLICY
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/280362
作者单位	University of Lucerne; Swiss Federal Institutes of Technology Domain; ETH Zurich
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Schaffer, Lena Maria,Oehl, Bianca,Bernauer, Thomas. Are policymakers responsive to public demand in climate politics?[J],2022,42(1).
APA	Schaffer, Lena Maria,Oehl, Bianca,&Bernauer, Thomas.(2022).Are policymakers responsive to public demand in climate politics?.JOURNAL OF PUBLIC POLICY,42(1).
MLA	Schaffer, Lena Maria,et al."Are policymakers responsive to public demand in climate politics?".JOURNAL OF PUBLIC POLICY 42.1(2022).