2021
Are policymakers responsive to public demand in climate politics?
Professor Bernauer and colleagues from the University of Lucerne have published a research paper on the responsiveness of policy makers to changes in public demand, specifically in the realm of climate politics.
Swiss Environmental Panel Explanation Video
The Swiss Environmental Panel team have created a video explaining the purpose of their research, why it is important, and what exactly they are investigating. The videos are available in three of the national Swiss Languages. Take a look here.
Current surveys may underestimate climate change skepticism evidence from list experiments in Germany and the USA
Most public opinion surveys indicate high levels of climate concern and strong policy support, yet mitigation efforts in most countries are not amitious enough to slow down climate change. This paper by Prof. Bernauer and Dr. Beiser-McGrath assesses potential social desirability biases in surveys in Germany and in the USA. They reveal their findings in their latest publication.
Understanding public support for domestic contributions to global collective goods
Dr. Liam Beiser-McGrath and Prof. Thomas Bernauer have published a paper with colleagues presenting their results from a survey experiment on carbon taxation in Japan. They demonstrate how political support for domestic policies that contribute to global collective goods is impacted by other countries’ policy actions.
German-speaking Switzerland is less critical of 5G expansion
The Swiss Environmental Panel team in our group, and the Institute of Science, Technology and Policy, has written an article in the ETH News presenting their findings from the Fifth Wave of their surveys. The results show that 5G technology is a less polarising issue among the Swiss population than orginially anticipated, in particular in German-speaking regions of Switzerland. View their full report, as well as the ETH News article.