Institutional quality shapes who citizens hold responsible for climate change mitigation
基于106国数据，研究发现制度质量（如政府效能、腐败控制）影响公民将减缓气候变化的责任归于政府、企业还是个人，且关系呈U型或倒U型。
Public beliefs about who is primarily responsible for climate change mitigation vary widely across countries, and little is known about what explains this variation. Drawing on data from 106 countries ( N = 101,728), we examined how indicators of national institutional quality (government effectiveness, regulatory quality, control of corruption, and rule of law) shape people's attributions of climate responsibility to governments, businesses, and individuals. Results showed that the higher a country's institutional quality, the more likely its citizens were to attribute responsibility for climate mitigation to businesses. In contrast, government responsibility attributions followed a U-shaped relationship for institutional capacity dimensions (government effectiveness and regulatory quality), such that citizens in countries with very low or very high institutional capacity were more likely to hold governments responsible. Individual responsibility attribution showed the opposite pattern (inverted U-shaped), with citizens in countries with moderate institutional quality most likely to view individuals as responsible. These associations held after controlling for GDP per capita, perceived importance of climate change, and demographic factors. These findings show that variations in institutional quality are linked to how citizens assign responsibility for climate change mitigation, which suggests that climate mitigation strategies cannot be divorced from institutional contexts.