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2020 | show all back to the top of all publications Kammerlander, Andreas, Schulze, Günther G.Political-economic correlates of environmental policy 2021 Environmental Research Letters , volume : 16, issue : 2, page : 024047» show abstract « hide abstract Abstract What are the correlates of environmental performance? In particular, does globalization lead to environmental degradation? What is the role of democracy for environmental performance and do left-wing governments really care more about the environment? Using a comprehensive measure of environmental performance, we test these three hypotheses for a panel of 134 countries for the period 2007-2016. Our results are surprising – we find no evidence that democracies are cleaner, left-wing governments perform better than right-wing governments, but centrist governments clearly have the highest environmental performance, and globalization is good for the environment. The positive impact of globalization is driven by social globalization ─ economic and political globalization do not play a role.
Download file Kammerlander, Andreas, Schulze, Günther G.Are Democracies Cleaner? 2020 Eur J Polit Econ , volume : 64» show abstract « hide abstract Abstract We inquire whether democracies enjoy lower pollution levels than autocracies by investigating the ‘clean democracy hypothesis’, which posits that democracies have a more demand-determined policy formation leading to more stringent environmental policies. We test this hypothesis with a large data set covering 137 countries and the period 1970–2012 using eleven different air pollutants as endogenous variables and a wide range of control variables measuring democracy, development stage, globalization, and factor endowments. We find no consistent evidence that democracies are cleaner, not even the richer ones, which casts doubt on the validity of single pollutants studies. Numerous checks show the robustness of our results.
Other publications Years: 2020 | show all back to the top of all publications Andreas, Kammerlander, Schulze, Günther G.Political-Economic Correlates of Environmental Policy IEP Discussion Paper Series No. 39, University of Freiburg , 2020 Credits: SILK Icons by http://www.famfamfam.com/lab/icons/silk/