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191405
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With the rising demands for personal vehicles of the growing middle class in India, their increasing quest for comfort and social status, the emissions from road transportation are increasing manifold times. To fulfil the dual need of increasing personal demand as well as lower vehicular emissions, it is important to replace all future vehicle purchase with purchase of electric vehicles (EVs). This study analyses the socio-psychological determinants of the process by which an individual might develop an intention to buy an EV in the near future. Using Structural Equation Modeling and mediation analysis, the interrelationships between the Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB) constructs along with three additional constructs, ‘‘cost’, ‘herd behavior’, and ‘personal norm’ are analyzed and several direct and indirect pathways in which intentions possibly form in people's mind are outlined. Subjective norms followed by perceived behavioral control emerge as the significant and direct intention formation pathway. Though cost, herd behavior, and personal norms alone do not influence intention formation, these factors mediates the TPB variables in forming intention to adopt EVs. Hence, the current EV promotion policies, primarily focused on subsidies need to be complemented with other attitudinal and norm-based nudges to promote faster EV adoption in India.
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Richard Betts argued that strategy—the idea that a state’s political ends could be reliably linked to its coercive means—is a necessary illusion. Without strategy, war is mindless killing; but its rationales cannot guide state choices because there is a yawning gap between the macro level where strategy is articulated and the micro level of day-to-day choices. That gap is particularly insurmountable when beginning, as Betts does, from a rationalist model of action. I propose that grand strategy is best understood as a case of collective intentionality, a concept that amends the rationalist framework in a way that makes it possible to clarify an analytic pathway from grand strategy to state behavior. Crucial to this pathway are legitimation processes found in forums, and I argue that grand strategies can pull state behavior when they are tied to forums. Focusing on the interstate case, I develop a causal mechanism from the forum, to ways of talking, to commitment-consistent behavior. I illustrate the argument with an example from the Concert of Europe. Stacie E. Goddard and Ronald R. Krebs propose that legitimation processes might be particularly successful where institutions are weak. My framework helps flesh out that proposition: even in anarchy, action commitments can affect states’ behavior through the mechanisms of the forum.
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