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

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Title Replication Data for: Creating Climate Coalitions: Mass Preferences for Compensating Vulnerability in the World’s Two Largest Democracies
 
Identifier https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/PHRNTQ
 
Creator Genovese, Federica
Gaikwad, Nikhar
Tingley, Dustin
 
Publisher Harvard Dataverse
 
Description 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.
 
Subject Social Sciences
climate change, compensation, investment, vulnerability, United States, India, fossil fuels, decarbonization
 
Contributor Genovese, Federica