Governing for Future Generations: How Political Trust Shapes Attitudes Towards Climate and Debt Policies

Policy decisions, and public preferences about them, often entail judgements about costs people should be willing to pay for the benefit of future generations. Economic analyses discount policies’ future benefits based on expectations about increasing standards of living, while empirical studies in...

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Main Authors: Malcolm Fairbrother, Gustaf Arrhenius, Krister Bykvist, Tim Campbell
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2021-05-01
Series:Frontiers in Political Science
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Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpos.2021.656053/full