Replication Data for: "In Search of Politically Feasible Policy-Packages for Sustainable Passenger Transport: Insights from Choice Experiments in China, Germany, and the USA"

The main obstacle to making the transportation sector ecologically more sustainable is political fea-sibility. Effective policy-interventions usually encounter strong public opposition as they interfere in costly ways with people’s daily lives, unveiling a dilemma between political feasibility and environ-mental policy effectiveness. Evidencing the existence of this dilemma, the literature on attitudes towards different policy instrument types maintains that so-called push measures are less support-ed by citizens than pull measures, and that market-based instruments tend to be less supported than non-market instruments. While these findings may uphold when considering single policy in-struments, whether they continue to do so when considering policy-packages, that is, simultane-ously implemented policy-interventions consisting of several policy instruments, remains unclear. To identify politically feasible and effective policy-packages aimed at greening the transportation sector we use choice experiments with representative samples of citizens from China, Germany, and the USA (N=4’876). Contrary to existing literature, we find that public support does not neces-sarily depend on the instrument type but rather on specific policy design and is highly context de-pendent. Moreover, despite significant differences between the three country contexts consid-ered, various combinations of policy measures appear to be both potentially effective and sup-ported by most citizens. Altogether, these results suggest that carefully bundled policy-packages may allow governments to employ instruments that would not be politically feasible if introduced in isolation.