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Bridging the ideological gap? How fairness perceptions mediate the effect of revenue recycling on public support for carbon taxes in the United States, Canada and Germany
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Abstract Carbon taxes are frequently advocated as a means of reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, yet their political feasibility remains a challenge. To enhance their political appeal, carbon tax proponents have proposed revenue recycling as a means of alleviating public concern with this instrument's v... view more
Carbon taxes are frequently advocated as a means of reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, yet their political feasibility remains a challenge. To enhance their political appeal, carbon tax proponents have proposed revenue recycling as a means of alleviating public concern with this instrument's visible costs. Analyzing data from identical survey-experiments administered in the United States, Canada, and Germany, we examine the extent to which returning revenues to the public has the potential to broaden the political acceptability of carbon taxes across ideological and national contexts. While public opinion is sensitive to the cost attributes of carbon taxes, we find that in some cases, opposition to carbon taxes can be offset by a reduction in income taxes. However, these effects tend to be modest in size, limited to some ideological groups, and varied across countries. Moreover, we demonstrate that fairness perceptions are a crucial mechanism linking revenue recycling to carbon tax support in all countries examined.... view less
Keywords
ISSP; United States of America; Canada; Federal Republic of Germany; taxation; fairness; ideology; public opinion; recycling; energy policy; climate protection; environment tax
Classification
Ecology, Environment
Public Finance
Political Process, Elections, Political Sociology, Political Culture
Free Keywords
ISSP 2010; carbon tax; revenue recycling; survey experiment
Document language
English
Publication Year
2021
Page/Pages
p. 529-554
Journal
Review of Policy Research, 38 (2021) 5
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1111/ropr.12439
ISSN
1541-1338
Status
Published Version; peer reviewed
Licence
Creative Commons - Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0