Elite Endorsement and Climate Change: Public Opinion in Developing Countries

• In Event: Climate Politics, Public Endorsement, and Regime Legitimacy

Brief Overview

Do advocacy and endorsements change attitudes of communities to climate change, and do the identity of endorser matter? Endorsement experiment in Malaysia found a decrease in belief, questioning the role of the credibility of endorsers.

Authors

• Renato Lima-de-Oliveira, Asia School of Business and MIT-Sloan

• Zhai Gen Tan, University of California, Santa Barbara