Spillover effects of an environmental campaign on policy support: within and between domains

Zihan Nie (), Thong Q. Ho (), Francisco Alpizar Rodriguez, Fredrik Carlsson and Pham Khanh Nam ()
Additional contact information
Zihan Nie: Beijing Normal University
Thong Q. Ho: University of Economics Ho Chi Minh City
Pham Khanh Nam: College of Economics, Law and Government, University of Economics Ho Chi Minh City

No 24-11, EfD Discussion Paper from Environment for Development, University of Gothenburg

Abstract: This paper investigates the spillover effect of an environmental campaign on the support for policies within and across other domains. The environmental campaign focused on single-use plastics, and we find increased support for stricter plastic policies. However, support for environmental policies in other domains, such as climate change, is unaffected or even decreasing, evidencing a negative spillover effect on the support for policies in domains not targeted by the campaign. Interestingly, this effect is not the result of behavioral changes, but is rather related to limited cognitive abilities: focusing on one issue might result in a downplay of other environmental issues and reduced willingness to support policy changes.

Keywords: environmental campaign; policy support; spillover effect (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D80 O10 O20 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 23 pages
Date: 2024-08-23
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-env
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
https://www.efdinitiative.org/sites/default/files/ ... -24-11%20MS-1693.pdf Full text (application/pdf)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:hhs:gunefd:2024_011

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in EfD Discussion Paper from Environment for Development, University of Gothenburg
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Franklin Amuakwa-Mensah ().