This study explores Britons' attitudes toward environmental taxes through survey experiments.
Research Design:
Survey experiments tested willingness to pay for pollution-related taxes under different conditions.
Key Findings:
People's tax acceptance isn't influenced by revenue use, but relevance reduces support. Tax offsets increase public willingness significantly, however this effect is undermined by political distrust.
Why It Matters:
This research provides experimental evidence that cynicism about officials' integrity affects policy preferences.
| When Will People Pay to Pollute? Environmental Taxes, Political Trust, and Experimental Evidence from Britain was authored by Malcolm Fairbrother. It was published by Cambridge in BJPS in 2019. |
