The Public Acceptance of Green Taxes: 2 Million Voters Express Their Opinion

By P. Thalmann. 2004

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law

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French attitudes on climate change, carbon taxation and other climate policies (2020, background): “Using a post-electoral survey in Switzerland, Thalmann (2004) finds that political leaning, education and self-interest are correlated with acceptance.”
Determinants of tax innovation: The case of environmental taxes in Flemish municipalities (2006, background): “As leftist voters tend to have a more positive attitude towards environmental policy in general (Daugbjerg and Svensen, 2001; Thalmann, 2004 ), we expect that the environmental label of the tax is more convincing for them.”
ENERGY CONSERVATION “NUDGES” AND ENVIRONMENTALIST IDEOLOGY: EVIDENCE FROM A RANDOMIZED RESIDENTIAL ELECTRICITY FIELD EXPERIMENT (2010, unknown): “In the United States, Democrat, Peace and Freedom, and Green party members (liberals in the U.S. terminology) are more likely to vote for environmentalist causes than Republican, American Party, or Libertarian party members (conservatives in the U.S. terminology).”
What explains public support for climate policies? A review of empirical and experimental studies (2016, background): “Related to this, the success of past environmental ballots in Switzerland depended significantly on whether political parties and associations expressed support for the respective policy proposal (Stadelmann-Steffen, 2011).”
Assessing the impacts of ageing and natural resource extraction on carbon emissions: A proposed policy framework for European economies (2021, background): “On the link between age-dependence and environmental preferences, Thalmann (2004) indicated that the inclination to spend for healthier ecological quality, i.e., green taxes, significantly decreases with age.”
A choice experiment on fuel taxation and earmarking in Norway (2011, result): “Similar results are found by for instance Banister (2003), Harrington et al. (2001), Hsu et al. (2008), Ison (2000), Schade and Schlag (2003), Schuitema and Steg (2008), Steg et al. (2006) and Thalmann (2004).”
Public acceptance for environmental taxes: Self-interest, environmental and distributional concerns (2011, background): “…education, those who do not own a car, and members of higher income groups.3 Analyzing survey results from a Swiss referendum on fossil fuel taxes, Thalmann (2004) finds that the main determinant of the vote was people’s political orientation, that people with a higher education voted…”
Effectiveness, earmarking and labeling: testing the acceptability of carbon taxes with survey data (2017, methodology): “That is, as in Thalmann (2004), it is not only car ownership, but also the number of vehicles that is related to political behavior.”