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PSX773560_Supplementary_material – Supplemental material for Does Social Trust Affect Public Support for International Trade? Insights from an Experiment in Vietnam
No full textSupplemental material, PSX773560_Supplementary_material for Does Social Trust
Affect Public Support for International Trade? Insights from an Experiment in
Vietnam by Quynh Nguyen and Thomas Bernauer in Political Studies</p
Determinants of sustainable (= environmentally friendly) consumption behavior
No full textProject team (in alphabetical order):
Thomas Bernauer, Yann Blumer, Sandor Czellar, Simona Haasova, Renate Schubert
Contact:
Thomas Bernauer, [email protected]
Wave 14 of the SEP will cover two topics: 1. droughts and coping with water shortages in the context of climate change; 2. Environmentally friendly consumption. Average survey time should be around 10 minutes for each part, and respondents will be assigned to both parts in randomized order. We expect a sample size of around 5000 – 6000. This document includes details for the survey part on environmentally friendly consumption. The survey part on droughts is pre-registered separately in OSF. Wave 14 will include only very few items on socio-demographics, because the previous baseline wave (Wave 13) provides data for many socio-demographic and other variables (e.g. general environmental attitudes, political views) and respondents in Wave 14 have, by definition, participated also in the previous baseline wave. More information on the SEP can be found here: https://istp.ethz.ch/research/sep.html
The survey part on environmentally friendly consumption follows up on Wave 8 of the SEP, which focused on circular economy issues, and various items on pro-environmental behavior included in other panel waves. The environmentally friendly consumption part in Wave 14 is undertaken in cooperation with a research team that carried out three surveys waves on “sustainable” consumption as part of Swiss National Research Program 73 (green economy) (Blumer et al. 2024). The contents of the SEP Wave 14 survey on environmentally friendly consumption differ substantially from the mentioned three NFP 73 surveys, though there are some deliberate overlaps that will help us in interpreting and contextualizing results obtained from SEP Wave 14. E.g. the NRP project surveys did not include choice experiments, whereas the SEP W14 survey does. Both surveys focus on how TPB and DIPB items influence consumption behavior in three product categories (for details, see below).
Goals
• Better understand drivers of and barriers to environmentally friendly consumption choices
• Compare the relevance of drivers and barriers across different product types
• Assess/compare two conceptual frameworks for explaining environmentally friendly consumption choices: “Theory of planned behavior” (TPB; Ajzen, 1991) and “Dragons of Inaction Psychological Barriers” (DIPB Scale; Lacroix et al., 2019)
Replication Data for: Could Revenue Recycling Make Effective Carbon Taxation Politically Feasible?
No full textReplication data for Beiser-McGrath, Liam F. and Thomas Bernauer (2019) Could Revenue Recycling Make Effective Carbon Taxation Politically Feasible? Science Advances 5(9) https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.aax3323
Carbon taxes are widely regarded as a potentially effective and economically efficient policy instrument for decarbonizing the global energy supply and thus limiting global warming. The main obstacle is political feasibility because of opposition from citizens and industry. Earmarking revenues from carbon taxation for spending that benefits citizens (i.e., revenue recycling) might help policy makers escape this political impasse. On the basis of choice experiments with representative samples of citizens in Germany and the United States, we examine whether revenue recycling could mitigate two key obstacles to achieving sufficient public support for carbon taxes: (i) declines in support as taxation levels increase and (ii) concerns over the international economic level playing field. For both countries, we find that revenue recycling could help achieve majority support for carbon tax levels of up to 70 per metric ton of carbon, but only if industrialized countries join forces and adopt similar carbon taxes
Replication Data for: Could Revenue Recycling Make Effective Carbon Taxation Politically Feasible?
No full textReplication data for Beiser-McGrath, Liam F. and Thomas Bernauer (2019) Could Revenue Recycling Make Effective Carbon Taxation Politically Feasible? Science Advances 5(9) https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.aax3323
Carbon taxes are widely regarded as a potentially effective and economically efficient policy instrument for decarbonizing the global energy supply and thus limiting global warming. The main obstacle is political feasibility because of opposition from citizens and industry. Earmarking revenues from carbon taxation for spending that benefits citizens (i.e., revenue recycling) might help policy makers escape this political impasse. On the basis of choice experiments with representative samples of citizens in Germany and the United States, we examine whether revenue recycling could mitigate two key obstacles to achieving sufficient public support for carbon taxes: (i) declines in support as taxation levels increase and (ii) concerns over the international economic level playing field. For both countries, we find that revenue recycling could help achieve majority support for carbon tax levels of up to 70 per metric ton of carbon, but only if industrialized countries join forces and adopt similar carbon taxes
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Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
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