Replication Data for: Greenwashing and Public Demand for Government Regulationdoi:10.7910/DVN/HOT20SHarvard Dataverse2022-08-301Kolcava, Dennis, 2022, "Replication Data for: Greenwashing and Public Demand for Government Regulation", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/HOT20S, Harvard Dataverse, V1Replication Data for: Greenwashing and Public Demand for Government Regulationdoi:10.7910/DVN/HOT20SKolcava, DennisHarvard DataverseKolcava, DennisKolcava, Dennis2022-08-18Social SciencesEnvironmental PoliticsRegulationSurvey ExperimentThese files replicate the analysis in Kolcava, D (forthcoming), Greenwashing and Public Demand for Government Regulation, Journal of Public Policy Environmental governance in many high-income democracies relies to some extent on self-regulation by the private sector. Yet, this policy mode is contested and proponents of top-down government regulation argue that voluntary corporate sustainability commitments remain shallow and rarely are more than greenwashing. I assess to what extent firms’ business conduct is subject to societal checks and balances, in particular, whether public support for regulation constitutes a control mechanism of corporate contributions to environmental goods. I rely on an original survey experiment (N=2112) conducted with a representative sample of the Swiss voting population. The analysis shows that accusing firms of greenwashing reduces both citizens’ perceived effectiveness of self-regulation and perceived synergy of corporate profits and environmental protection. However, this attitudinal shift only translates into modest updates in respondents’ policy preference formation. As a result, short-run shifts in public support for regulation are an unlikely societal control mechanism of business conduct.<a href="http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0">CC0 1.0</a>replication_files.7zapplication/x-7z-compressed