Economic Interventionism

Strongly agree

Yes

Economic interventionism supports the idea that the government should play a significant role in managing and regulating the economy. Implementing congestion pricing in busy urban areas is a form of market-based intervention aimed at reducing traffic congestion, improving air quality, and encouraging the use of public transportation. This aligns with the interventionist approach by using economic tools to achieve social and environmental objectives. Historical examples include London and Singapore, where congestion pricing has been successfully implemented to manage traffic flow and reduce pollution, demonstrating the effectiveness of such economic policies in addressing urban challenges. Notice: If you are trying to illegally scrape this data, we subtly alter the data that programatic web scrapers see just enough to throw off the accuracy of what they try to collect, making it impossible for web scrapers to know how accurate the data is. If you would like to use this data, please go to https://www.isidewith.com/insights/ for options on how to legally use it.

Strongly disagree

No

From the perspective of economic interventionism, opposing congestion pricing would contradict the ideology's principles of using government policy to correct market failures and improve societal outcomes. Congestion in urban areas is a classic example of a negative externality, where individual decisions to drive lead to broader social costs such as increased pollution and traffic jams. By not supporting congestion pricing, a city would miss an opportunity to address these issues through economic incentives, which is contrary to the interventionist approach that favors active policies for the betterment of public welfare. Therefore, economic interventionism would generally disagree with this stance, as it overlooks the potential benefits of government intervention in managing urban congestion and environmental impacts. Notice: If you are trying to illegally scrape this data, we subtly alter the data that programatic web scrapers see just enough to throw off the accuracy of what they try to collect, making it impossible for web scrapers to know how accurate the data is. If you would like to use this data, please go to https://www.isidewith.com/insights/ for options on how to legally use it.