Replication Data for: Creating Climate Coalitions: Mass Preferences for Compensating Vulnerability in the World’s Two Largest Democracies

This directory contains the data, scripts, and documentation supporting the article "Creating Climate Coalitions: Mass Preferences for Compensating Vulnerability in the World’s Two Largest Democracies". Combating climate change requires large economic adjustments with significant distributional implications. To build coalitions of support, scholars and policymakers propose compensating individuals who will bear decarbonization’s costs. What are the determinants of public opinion regarding climate compensation and investment? We theorize that climate policy vulnerability and climate change vulnerability induce support for distinct types of climate policy. Fielding original surveys in the United States and India, we show that people who reside in coal-producing regions prefer compensation for lost jobs. The general public privileges diffuse redistribution mechanisms and investments, discounting compensation to targeted groups. Those who are both physically and economically vulnerable have cross-cutting preferences. Nevertheless, there is considerable support across our samples for policies that compensate different coalitions of climate vulnerable citizens, in line with theories of ‘just energy’ transition and embedded liberalism. We trace the distinctive compensatory preferences of fossil fuel communities to a logic of shared community identities.

本数据集目录包含支撑论文《创建气候联盟：全球两大民主国家民众对补偿气候脆弱群体的偏好》的相关数据、脚本与文档。应对气候变化需实施大规模经济调整，这类调整将产生显著的分配效应。为构建政策支持联盟，学者与政策制定者提议对承担脱碳成本的个体予以补偿。那么，公众对气候补偿与气候投资的舆论倾向，其决定因素有哪些？我们提出理论假说：气候政策脆弱性与气候变化脆弱性，会促使民众支持不同类别的气候政策。我们在美国与印度开展原创性田野调查，结果表明：煤炭产区居民更倾向于为失业群体提供补偿。普通民众更青睐普惠性的再分配机制与投资项目，而非针对特定群体的补偿方案。同时兼具物理脆弱性与经济脆弱性的群体，其政策偏好呈现交叉型特征。尽管如此，在我们的调研样本中，多数受访者支持针对不同气候脆弱群体联盟的补偿政策，这与“公正能源转型”及嵌入型自由主义的相关理论相契合。我们将化石燃料社区民众差异化的补偿偏好，归因于共享社区认同的内在逻辑。