Schaffer, Lena MariaMagyar, Zsuzsanna B.2025-05-122025-05-122024Schaffer LM, Magyar ZB. Comparative energy transition policy: how exposure, policy vulnerability and trust affect popular acceptance of policy expansion. J Comp Policy Anal. 2024; 26(3-4): 283-302. DOI: 10.1080/13876988.2024.23311661387-6988http://hdl.handle.net/10230/70354Includes supplementary materials for the online appendix.This article examines how exposure to energy transition and climate policy vulnerability influence popular support for more ambitious climate policy. Moreover, it explores whether this relationship depends on a person's generalized and political trust. Comparing data from surveys in Germany and Switzerland, the findings reveal that perceived exposure to energy transition positively influences climate policy support, while individual climate policy vulnerability decreases it. For individuals with higher levels of trust, exposure helps enhance the positive effect (subjective exposure) or dampen the negative effect (policy vulnerability). These results underscore the importance of incorporating trust and subjective perceptions into climate policy frameworks.application/pdfeng© 2024 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. The terms on which this article has been published allow the posting of the Accepted Manuscript in a repository by the author(s) or with their consent.info:eu-repo/semantics/article2025-05-12http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13876988.2024.2331166Climate policyComparativePolicy exposureSubjective exposurePolitical trustGeneralized trustinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess