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Replication data for: Public demand for extraterritorial environmental and social public goods provision

Harvard Dataverse (Africa Rice Center, Bioversity International, CCAFS, CIAT, IFPRI, IRRI and WorldFish)

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Title Replication data for: Public demand for extraterritorial environmental and social public goods provision
 
Identifier https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/LQ5LYL
 
Creator Rudolph, Lukas
Kolcava, Dennis
Bernauer, Thomas
 
Publisher Harvard Dataverse
 
Description Vastly increased transnational business activity in recent decades has been accompanied by controversy over how to cope with its social and environmental impacts. The most prominent policy response thus far consists of international guidelines. We investigate to what extent and why citizens in a high-income country are willing to restrain companies to improve environmental and social conditions in other countries. Exploiting a real-world referendum in Switzerland, we use choice and vignette experiments with a representative sample of voters (N=3010) to study public demand for such regulation. Our results show that citizens prefer strict and unilateral rules (with a substantial variation of preferences by general social and environmental concern) while correctly assessing their consequences. Moreover, exposure to international norms increases demand for regulation. These findings highlight that democratic accountability can be a mechanism that motivates states to contribute to collective goods even if not in their economic interest and that awareness of relevant international norms among citizens can enhance this mechanism.
 
Subject Social Sciences
global supply chains
norms
public opinion
survey experiment
sustainable development
United Nations Guiding Principles for Business and Human Rights
 
Contributor Rudolph, Lukas