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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.

Language
Englisch

Bibliographic citation
Series: Discussion Paper Series ; No. 39

Classification
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
Subject
Environment
Globalization
Political Orientation
Democracy
Environmental performance index
KOF globalization index

Event
Geistige Schöpfung
(who)
Kammerlander, Andreas
Schulze, Günther G.
Event
Veröffentlichung
(who)
University of Freiburg, Department of International Economic Policy (iep)
(where)
Freiburg i. Br.
(when)
2020

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  • Arbeitspapier

Associated

  • Kammerlander, Andreas
  • Schulze, Günther G.
  • University of Freiburg, Department of International Economic Policy (iep)

Time of origin

  • 2020

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