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When and Why do People Accept Public Policy Interventions? An Integrative Public Policy Acceptance Framework (in press)

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  • Grelle, Sonja

    (PhD Student)

  • Hofmann, Wilhelm

    (Ruhr University Bochum, Germany)

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The successful introduction of public policies to prompt behavior change hinges on the degree to which citizens endorse the proposed policies. While there is a large body of research on psychological determinants of policy acceptance, these determinants have not yet been synthesized into an integrative framework that proposes hypotheses about their interplay. In this article, we develop a review-based, integrative public policy acceptance framework that introduces the desire for governmental support as a motivational foundation in public policy acceptance. The framework traces the route from problem awareness to policy acceptance and, ultimately, policy compliance. We propose this relationship to be mediated by the motivation to desire governmental support. We integrate numerous key variables assumed to qualify the relationship between problem awareness and the desire for governmental support, such as control attributions, trust, and value fit, as well as the relationship between the desire for governmental support and policy acceptance, such as perceived policy effectiveness, intrusiveness, and fairness. We exemplify the use of the proposed framework applying it to climate policies.

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  • Grelle, Sonja & Hofmann, Wilhelm, 2023. "When and Why do People Accept Public Policy Interventions? An Integrative Public Policy Acceptance Framework (in press)," OSF Preprints ty2m7_v1, Center for Open Science.
    • Handle: RePEc:osf:osfxxx:ty2m7_v1
    DOI: 10.31219/osf.io/ty2m7_v1
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