Browsing by Author "Jagers, Sverker C."
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Attitudes to Personal Carbon Allowances: The effect of trust in politicians, perceived fairness and ideology
Jagers, Sverker C.; Löfgren, Åsa; Stripple, Johannes (2009-05-04)The idea of Personal Carbon Allowances (PCAs) was presented by the British Environment Secretary David Miliband in 2006. Although no state is seriously developing proposals for them, they have been heavily debated within ... -
Common ground for effort sharing? Preferred principles for distributing climate mitigation efforts
Hjerpe, Mattias; Löfgren, Åsa; Linnér, Björn-Ola; Hennlock, Magnus; Sterner, Thomas; Jagers, Sverker C. (2011-03)This paper fills a gap in the current academic and policy literature concerning how parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change find common ground when distributing commitments and responsibilities ... -
Democracy and Economic Development
Povitkina, Maryna; Jagers, Sverker C.; Sjöstedt, Martin; Sundström, Aksel (2013-02)Is democracy favorable or adverse for the environment? While some studies find democracy to increase the likelihood of achieving sustainable development, others propose that democracy rather has negative effects on the ... -
Drought and Trust
Ahlerup, Pelle; Sundström, Aksel; Jagers, Sverker C.; Sjöstedt, Martin (2023-04)Droughts can affect people’s political trust positively, through rallying effects, or negatively, through blame attribution. We examine how drought conditions affect political trust in the context of Africa. We link ... -
Environmental commitments in different types of democracies: The role of liberal, social-liberal, and deliberative politics
Povitkina, Marina; Jagers, Sverker C. (2021-03)Ever since the recognition of ongoing, human-induced, large-scale environmental degradation, from the early 1960s onwards, the scholarly community has looked at democracy with mixed feelings. Some assert, quite openly, ... -
Exploring the Impact of Political Regimes on Biodiversity
Zizka, Alexander; Rydén, Oskar; Edler, Daniel; Klein, Johannes; Aronsson, Heléne; Perrigo, Allison; Silvestro, Daniele; Jagers, Sverker C.; Lindberg, Staffan I.; Antonelli, Alexandre (2020-03)National governments are the main actors responsible for mapping and protecting their biodiversity, but countries differ in their capacity, willingness, and effectiveness to do so. We quantify the global biodiversity managed ... -
Governance through community policing: What makes citizens report poaching of wildlife to state officials?
Sjöstedt, Martin; Sundström, Aksel; Jagers, Sverker C.; Ntuli, Herbert (2021-03)Rulers of weak states face a predicament. They lack capacity to monitor crime and need citizens to partake in intelligence-sharing. Yet, agents of such authorities are seldom trusted, raising doubts about whether locals ... -
How Policy Legitimacy Affects Policy Support Throughout the Policy Cycle
Jagers, Sverker C.; Matti, Simon; Nordblom, Katarina (2016-12)We analyze the importance of legitimacy and compare how drivers of public policy attitudes evolve across the policy process consisting of the input (i.e. the processes forgoing acquisition of power and the procedures ... -
Institutional Quality Causes Social Trust: Evidence from Survey and Experimental Data on Trusting Under the Shadow of Doubt
Martinangeli, Andrea F.M.; Povitkina, Marina; Jagers, Sverker C.; Rothstein, Bo (2020-12)Social trust is a crucial ingredient for successful collective action. What causes social trust to develop, however, remains poorly understood. The quality of political institutions has been proposed as a candidate driver ... -
Intergenerational Responsibility: Historical Emissions and Climate Change Adaptation
Jagers, Sverker C.; Duus-Otterström, Göran (2007-10)It is widely held that climate change requires that we engage in strategies of adaptation as well as mitigation, but the normative questions surrounding justice in adaptation remains insufficiently investigated. This paper ... -
Justice, liberty and bread - for all? On the compatibility between sustainable development and liberal democracy
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Navigating Towards Effective Fishery Management: Exploring the Impact of Imbalanced Burdens on Regime Legitimacy
Berlin, Daniel; Möller, Ulrika; Jagers, Sverker C. (2008-04)Despite two decades of the Common Fishery Policy (CFP), the fishery politics of the European Union (EU) is considered a failure when it comes to securing fish-stocks. This paper explores reasons to this state of affairs ... -
Navigating Towards Effective Fishery Management? Exploring the Dynamics of Compliance
Berlin, Daniel; Jagers, Sverker C.; Möller, Ulrika (2007-12)This paper deals with compliance in the European and Swedish fisheries management regimes. It takes on a theoretical exploration of the dynamics of institutional compliance, and extracts six hypotheses based on theoretical ... -
Paradise Islands? Island States and the Provision of Environmental Goods
Jagers, Sverker C.; Povitkina, Marina; Sjöstedt, Martin; Sundström, Aksel (2013-11)Island states have been shown to trump continental states on collective action-related outcomes, such as democracy and institutional quality. The argument tested in this article contends that the same logic might apply to ... -
Tax Evasion and the Importance of Trust
Nordblom, Katarina; Jagers, Sverker C.; Hammar, Henrik (2005)Unless people pay the taxes they are obliged to pay, a general welfare state will eventually collapse. Thus, for the welfare state to survive in the long run, tax compliance is of utmost importance. Using Swedish individual ... -
What explains attitudes towards tax levels? A multi-tax comparison
Nordblom, Katarina; Jagers, Sverker C.; Hammar, Henrik (2006)We analyse Swedes’ opinions about the level of taxation for eleven different taxes to see what taxes people are most reluctant to and why. The most unpopular tax is the real estate tax, while the corporate tax is the least ... -
Who is willing to stay sick for the collective? – Individual characteristics, experience, and trust
Carlsson, Fredrik; Jacobsson, Gunnar; Jagers, Sverker C.; Lampi, Elina; Robertsson, Felicia; Rönnerstrand, Björn (2019-05)This paper deals with the collective action dilemma of antibiotic resistance. Despite the collective threat posed by antibiotic resistance, there are limited incentives for individuals to consider the contribution of their ...