ABSTRACT:
Data were collected from 371 land owner-operators in five contiguous counties in central Ohio to assess attitudes toward conservation compliance. A theoretical perspective was developed from selected components of social exchange theory to guide the study. The theoretical model basically argues that landowners evaluate government programs in the context of personal costs that they expect to internalize. Results showed that the respondents were slightly favorable toward conservation compliance and that the theoretical perspective was useful for predicting attitudes toward the program being evaluated. Respondents who perceived that conservation compliance would benefit them tended to be more favorable toward the program.
Footnotes
Ted L. Napier is a special assistant to the graduate dean and professor of resources sociology, and Anthony S. Napier is a research assistant, Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology, Ohio State University, Columbus, 43210. Salaries and reserach support used to formulate this paper were provided by the Ohio Agricultural Research and Development Center of Ohio State University and by the Soil Conservation Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture. 7;he positions expressed are solely those of the authors and do not represent positions of the sponsoring agencies.
- Copyright 1991 by the Soil and Water Conservation Society
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