To what extent citizens are willing not only to support ambitious climate policy but also willing to pay for such policy remains subject to debate. Our analysis addresses three issues in this regard: whether, as is widely assumed but not empirically established, willingness to support (WTS) is...

Attentional engagement with climate change is an important precondition for intentional climate-friendly behavior. However, not much is known about the determinants of an individuals' implicit willingness to attend to this global problem. This study investigates two potentially relevant...

Conventional wisdom holds that climate change poses a global public goods problem, thus requiring a global solution that reduces greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions worldwide through some form of centralized target setting and burden-sharing arrangement among countries. Yet, the 2015 Paris Agreement...

Press conferences are an important element of a government's communication strategy at climate change summits. From a theoretical perspective, press conferences should serve two main functions: exerting pressure in negotiations and informing the public. These functions correspond to two logics...

Many political leaders of the Global South oppose linkages between environmental standards and trade liberalization. We examine whether citizens in developing countries share this position. Whereas a recent study finds that in developed countries environmental concerns are associated with...

This paper is now published as:Bernauer, Thomas, Meins, Erika. 2003. Technological Revolution Meets Policy and the Market: Explaining Cross-National Differences in Agricultural Biotechnology Regulation. European Journal of Political Research 42/5:643-683.Please read and cite the published...

This paper is now published as:Bernauer, Thomas, Ernst, Fabio, Koubi, Vally. 2009. Economic Consequences of Swiss Defense Spending. Journal of Peace Research 46/4, 2009:467-484.Please read and cite the published version.The effects of defense spending on economic performance, and in particular,...

This paper is now published in heavily revised form as:Beck, Lucas, Bernauer, Thomas, Kalbhenn, Anna. 2010. Environmental, Political, and Economic Determinants of Water Quality Monitoring in Europe. Water Resources Research 46, W11543, doi:10.1029/2009WR009065, 2010.Please read and cite the...