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Environmental dilemmas and policy design
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ISBN: 0521627648 0521621569 1107114810 0511177488 0511039999 0511147848 051133012X 0511491069 128041877X 0511050402 9780521627641 9780521621564 9780511039997 9780511491061 9780511050404 9780511147845 9786610418770 6610418772 9781107114814 9780511177484 Year: 2002 Publisher: Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press,

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According to the logic of collective action, mere awareness of the causes of environmental degradation will not motivate rational agents to reduce pollution. Yet some government policies aim to enlist citizens in schemes of voluntary cooperation, drawing on an ethos of collective responsibility. Are such policies doomed to failure? This book provides a novel application of rational choice theory to a large-scale survey of environmental attitudes in The Netherlands. Its main findings are that rational citizens are motivated to cooperate towards a less polluted environment to a large extent, but that their willingness to assume responsibility depends on the social context of the collective action problem they face. This empirical study is an important volume in the development of a more consistent foundation for rational choice theory in policy analysis, which seeks to clarify major theoretical issues concerning the role of moral commitment, self-interest and reciprocity in environmental behaviour.

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