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DOI | 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2018.05.015 |
Divesting, Fast and Slow: Affective and Cognitive Drivers of Fading Voter Support for a Nuclear Phase-Out | |
Rinscheid, Adrian1,2; Wuestenhagen, Rolf1 | |
2018-10-01 | |
发表期刊 | ECOLOGICAL ECONOMICS
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ISSN | 0921-8009 |
EISSN | 1873-6106 |
出版年 | 2018 |
卷号 | 152页码:51-61 |
文章类型 | Article |
语种 | 英语 |
国家 | Switzerland; USA |
英文摘要 | Overcoming reliance on non-renewable resources is a key concern of energy transitions worldwide. But as the literature on carbon lock-in has shown, overcoming path dependence is all but trivial. Even well-minded decision-makers tend to relapse into inertia when it comes to making concrete divestment decisions. We investigate one specific case, the 2016 Swiss popular initiative to phase out nuclear power, to explore the cognitive and affective drivers of energy path dependence on the individual level. Within eight weeks of an intense political campaign, support for this initiative dropped from more than 60 to just 45.8% of Swiss voters. Based on a representative longitudinal survey (N = 1014), we show that changes in perceived risk and benefit of nuclear power play key roles in explaining fading voter support for nuclear divestment, and that affect is in turn a significant driver of those changes. By framing it as a choice between the lesser evil of nuclear power or importing German coal power, opponents of the phase-out managed to introduce an asymmetrically dominated option into voters' choice set, leading many to change their original voting intentions. Our paper responds to calls for integrating dual-process theories ("thinking fast and slow") into research in Ecological Economics. |
英文关键词 | Divestment Nuclear power Voting behavior Dual-process models Affect heuristic Asymmetric dominance effect |
领域 | 资源环境 |
收录类别 | SCI-E ; SSCI |
WOS记录号 | WOS:000440118700006 |
WOS关键词 | PATH DEPENDENCE ; POWER ; ACCEPTANCE ; DECISION ; ALTERNATIVES ; EXPLANATION ; RESPONSES ; ACCIDENT ; EMOTIONS ; CHOICE |
WOS类目 | Ecology ; Economics ; Environmental Sciences ; Environmental Studies |
WOS研究方向 | Environmental Sciences & Ecology ; Business & Economics |
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文献类型 | 期刊论文 |
条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.173/C666/handle/2XK7JSWQ/15329 |
专题 | 资源环境科学 |
作者单位 | 1.Univ St Gallen, Chair Management Renewable Energies, Tigerbergstr 2, CH-9000 St Gallen, Switzerland; 2.Princeton Univ, Woodrow Wilson Sch Publ & Int Affairs, Andlinger Ctr, 86 Olden St, Princeton, NJ 08544 USA |
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Rinscheid, Adrian,Wuestenhagen, Rolf. Divesting, Fast and Slow: Affective and Cognitive Drivers of Fading Voter Support for a Nuclear Phase-Out[J]. ECOLOGICAL ECONOMICS,2018,152:51-61. |
APA | Rinscheid, Adrian,&Wuestenhagen, Rolf.(2018).Divesting, Fast and Slow: Affective and Cognitive Drivers of Fading Voter Support for a Nuclear Phase-Out.ECOLOGICAL ECONOMICS,152,51-61. |
MLA | Rinscheid, Adrian,et al."Divesting, Fast and Slow: Affective and Cognitive Drivers of Fading Voter Support for a Nuclear Phase-Out".ECOLOGICAL ECONOMICS 152(2018):51-61. |
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