Arbeitspapier
Political-economic correlates of environmental policy
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 findings show that globalization leads to better environmental performances. Interestingly, this result is predominantly driven by social, not by economic or political globalization. Although we find evidence that left-wing governments perform better than right-wing governments, it is centrist governments that have the highest environmental performance. The political system, i.e. democracy, turns out insignificant in all specifications.
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Englisch
- Bibliographic citation
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Series: Discussion Paper Series ; No. 39
- Classification
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Wirtschaft
Economic Impacts of Globalization: Environment
Economic Development: Agriculture; Natural Resources; Energy; Environment; Other Primary Products
Environment and Development; Environment and Trade; Sustainability; Environmental Accounts and Accounting; Environmental Equity; Population Growth
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Environment
Globalization
Political Orientation
Democracy
Environmental performance index
KOF globalization index
- Event
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Kammerlander, Andreas
Schulze, Günther G.
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Veröffentlichung
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University of Freiburg, Department of International Economic Policy (iep)
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Freiburg i. Br.
- (when)
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2020
- Handle
- Last update
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10.03.2025, 11:44 AM CET
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Object type
- Arbeitspapier
Associated
- Kammerlander, Andreas
- Schulze, Günther G.
- University of Freiburg, Department of International Economic Policy (iep)
Time of origin
- 2020