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Egg-timer session: Non-market based instruments Location: Auditorium H Session Chair: Fredrik Carlsson, University of Gothenburg | |
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The impact of politicized and costly climate policies on trust in scientific information and policy support University of Gothenburg, Sweden By using controlled survey experiments, we investigate how politicization and cost of climate policies affect people’s beliefs about scientific information on climate change. We find that citizens' confidence in science-based information on climate is not judged only by its content. In particular, when a climate policy, based on scientific information, is aligned with political affiliation, trust in the scientific information is significantly lower than if the policy is not affiliated with any political party, a result that the right-block voters drive. For these voters the mere politicization of the policy results in a negative effect on the trust. For left-block voters, if the Green Party supports the policy, they are more likely to believe that the scientific information underestimates climate change. Manipulating the financial cost of climate policy to evoke cognitive dissonance did not affect citizens’ trust in the scientific information. | |