0603315 - ÚVGZ 2025 RIV GB eng J - Journal Article
Urban, J. - Duda, Ewa
Using the Campbell Paradigm to Understand the Role of Institutional Trust in Environmental Policy Support.
International Journal of Sociology. Roč. 54, č. 5-6 (2024), s. 476-509. ISSN 0020-7659. E-ISSN 1557-9336
Institutional support: RVO:86652079
Keywords : protection motivation theory * ecological behavior * transaction costs * planned behavior * attitudes * scale * metaanalysis * individuals * performance * framework * Institutional Trust * policy support * pro-environmental behavior * the Campbell paradigm * environmental attitude
OECD category: Sociology
Impact factor: 1.8, year: 2023
Method of publishing: Open access
Result website:
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00207659.2024.2376985DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/00207659.2024.2376985

Previous studies have shown that institutional trust is associated with people's support for some environmental policies (e.g., support for higher taxation) but not others (e.g., support for subsidies and bans). Such findings seem to contradict the notion that institutional trust helps to resolve social dilemmas and thus facilitates collective action on environmental problems. In the current study, we use the conceptual framework of the attitudinal theory of the Campbell paradigm to understand the lack of institutional trust as a behavioral cost of policy support which counterweights people's motivation to support a policy. Using a dataset from the Environmental module of a recent ISSP survey conducted in 28 countries, we corroborated the theoretical prediction, namely the expected positive effect of institutional trust on support for both pro- and anti-environmental policies. We also corroborated, albeit with some qualifications, that the choice of environmental policy depends on perceived behavioral costs exemplified, in our study, by institutional trust. The Campbell paradigm provides a useful analytical framework for understanding the role of trust in environmental policy support. It also helps us to understand previous inconsistent findings regarding the effect of trust on environmental policy support.
Permanent Link: https://hdl.handle.net/11104/0360537