Objective
Problems to be solved
The project is the first to examine the responses of grassroots stakeholders to ecological tax reform (ETR) policies and proposals. Although ETR is widely accepted to be a policy with desirable environmental, economic and employment effects, its implementation has been limited by problems with political acceptability, which this project addresses. Scientific objectives and approach The objective is to develop proposals to improve the design of ecological tax reform (ETR) policies to maximise their political acceptability while still attempting to meet the environmental, economic and employment objectives behind ETR.
The project aims to examine the attitudes of business and the general public towards ETR policies in five member states (Denmark, France, Germany, Ireland and the United Kingdom). The six specific objectives are:
1) To assess the patterns of awareness of ETR policies
2) To gauge the understanding of the intentions behind ETR in terms of environment and employment
3) To assess patterns of support or hostility towards specific policies and the general principles of ETR
4) To identify specific objections to these policies and principles
5) To assess what sort of ETR design would be regarded most favourably
6) To assess how far that design might compromise the effectiveness in meeting environmental, economic and employment objectives. The project methodology is based around the use of interviews and focus groups to inform the assessment of social responses to ETR policies and the development of improved designs for them. Qualitative methods have been chosen because these in-depth social research methods are the most appropriate means of uncovering the thinking processes underlying attitudes expressed.
Expected impacts
The results of the national studies are integrated into a European report developing proposals to improve the design of ETR policies in order to maximise their political acceptability while still attempting to meet the objectives behind ETR. The outputs of the project include national and European reports, national and European seminars and a series of policy briefs aimed at decision-makers.
Fields of science (EuroSciVoc)
CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques. See: The European Science Vocabulary.
CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques. See: The European Science Vocabulary.
- social sciences sociology governance taxation
- social sciences political sciences political policies civil society
- social sciences economics and business business and management employment
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Coordinator
GUILDFORD
United Kingdom
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