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%T Public acceptance of post-growth: Factors and implications for post-growth strategy %A Paulson, Lily %A Büchs, Milena %J Futures : the journal of policy, planning and futures studies %P 1-15 %V 143 %D 2022 %K post-growth; acceptance; European Values Study 2017: Integrated Dataset (EVS 2017) (ZA7500 v3.0.0) %@ 0016-3287 %~ FDB %> https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-91712-2 %X Growing evidence supports the need to re-evaluate the nature and function of our economies in favour of post-growth principles if we are to have a socially and environmentally viable future. This study contributes to the discussion on how to achieve such a future by addressing a remaining gap in the literature about the public acceptance of post-growth, since a viable transition requires public support to validate political actions. Taking a mixed-methods approach, we ask which values and socio-economic characteristics are associated with support for post-growth and why. On average among 34 European countries, 60.5 % of people are in favour of post-growth. Values such as environmentalism, collectivism and post-materialism were found to support post-growth visions of the future, but support for post-growth and these values is lower among disadvantaged people. We conclude that greater emphasis on redistribution and improving opportunities and livelihoods for disadvantaged people in a post-growth economy is key to making such a future more acceptable to them. However, this conflicts with policy preferences and values such as hierarchy, meritocracy, and individualism that tend to be more prominent among people who are well-off. %C NLD %G en %9 Zeitschriftenartikel %W GESIS - http://www.gesis.org %~ SSOAR - http://www.ssoar.info