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How projected electricity price and personal values influence support for a 50% renewable energy target in Australia / Phillips, Keri L

Phillips, Keri L	Journal Article
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This study investigated how projected electricity prices and personal values influence public support for a 50% renewable energy target (RET) in Australia. In an online experiment, 404 participants rated their support for a 50% RET across eight projected increases in their quarterly power bills. Multi-level modelling indicated that: (1) support for the 50% RET fell as the projected price of electricity increased, (2) although participants with low self-enhancement values and high self-transcendent values were most supportive of the 50% RET, these value-based differences disappeared as projected electricity prices increased. Implications of these findings for energy policy design are discussed.

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Energy Policy ; Renewable Energy ; Electricity Price ; Personal Values ; Policy Acceptability ; Multilevel Modelling

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Taking foreign policy personally: personal values and foreign policy attitudes / Rathbun, Brian C; Kertzer, Joshua D; Reifler, Jason ; Scotto, Thomas J

Reifler, Jason	Journal Article
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Previous research shows that, when it comes to foreign policy, individuals have general orientations that inform their beliefs toward more specific issues in international relations. But such studies evade an even more important question: what gives rise to such foreign-policy orientations in the first place? Combining an original survey on a nationally representative sample of Americans with Schwartz's theory of values from political psychology, we show that people take foreign policy personally: the same basic values that people use to guide choices in their daily lives also travel to the domain of foreign affairs. Conservation values are most strongly linked to “militant internationalism,” a general hawkishness in international relations. The value of universalism is the most important value for predicting “cooperative internationalism,” the foreign-policy orientation marked by a preference for multilateralism and cosmopolitanism in international affairs. This relatively parsimonious and elegant system of values and foreign-policy beliefs is consistent across both high- and low-knowledge respondents, offering one potential explanation for why those people who are otherwise uninformed about world politics nonetheless express coherent foreign-policy beliefs.

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America ; Foreign Policy Attitudes ; Foreign Policy ; Personal Values ; Schwartz's Theory

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