Local support of climate change policies in Germany over time

Abstract Political conflicts about energy and climate change policies have often local implications, yet little is known public opinion towards these policies. Here, we estimate support 26 mitigation for 402 German counties up to four periods of time using multilevel regression poststratification. We find that varies by 60 percentage points across with large disparities between the rural urban population. While expansion wind power plants solar converged over last years, attitudes on phase out coal polarized regions. Using a spatial panel analysis, correlate actual development capacities in Moreover, spread policy strongly determined diffusion as one region positively influences trajectory among its neighbors.