20.500.12556/DKUM-96283 Extending the civic voluntarism model a cross-national study of environmental public sphere behavior The public can influence environmental outcomes by engaging in the public sphere and shaping political and corporate decision-making. This study applies the Civic Voluntarism Model (CVM), a leading framework in political participation research, to explain Environmental Public Sphere Behavior (PSB), defined as environmentally motivated civic actions such as protesting, petitioning, and donating. We assess the predictive power of the full CVM and its four core modules (Resources, Psychological Engagement, Recruitment, and Environmental Issue Engagement) in a cross-national context, using data from the 2020 ISSP Environment module (N = 44,100; 28 countries). Multilevel regression models are used to assess both relationships and predictive performance. Our results demonstrate the utility of the CVM for understanding issue-specific forms of political participation such as PSB. However, we also find substantial cross-national variation: the CVM performs best in affluent countries with high Quality of Government. public sphere behaviour civic voluntarism models environmental attitudes activism political participation multilevel models governance comparative politics prookoljsko vedenje model državljanskega aktivizma okoljska stališča aktivizem politična participacija večnivojski modeli upravljanje primerjalna politologija true false true Elsevier Angleški jezik Slovenski jezik Znanstveno delo 2025-12-16 03:09:00 2026-02-25 09:29:31 2026-02-26 03:21:31 0000-00-00 00:00:00 2026 0 0 str. 1-15 št. 1, št. članka e44242 Letn. 12 2026 0000-00-00 Zaloznikova Objavljeno NiDoloceno 0000-00-00 2025-11-18 2025-12-11 316.334 261351683 10.1016/j.heliyon.2025.e44242 2405-8440 RAZ_Penker_Matthias_2026.pdf RAZ_Penker_Matthias_2026.pdf 1 4F39AB2BC2C3684E06E72C670A7C62BE ea804a785ef6220f1f18679e8eaa6ad9d8b408b306dd333cffca80f99e3cda48 4ce58e40-1224-11f1-a540-00155d580e1a https://dk.um.si/Dokument.php?lang=slv&id=203815 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.heliyon.2025.e44242 0 30749765-da24-11f0-8768-00155d580e02 https://dk.um.si/Dokument.php?lang=slv&id=201454 Filozofska fakulteta 0 0 0