Democracy and Environmental Degradation

By Quan Li, Rafael Reuveny. 2006

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Political Science and International Relations, Sociology and Political Science

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Trade openness, urbanization and CO2 emissions: Dynamic panel data analysis of middle-income countries (2018, background): “Therefore, a large number of literatures have included the related political variables in their studies (see, Li and Reuveny 2006; Lv 2017).”
Counting Calories: Democracy and Distribution in the Developing World (2011, background): “Li and Reuveny (2006) find that democracies outperform autocracies over a wide range of environmental measures.”
Drivers of national climate policy (2013, background): “…of democratic regimes should lead them to outperform more autocratic countries in a range of environmental policy areas (Bättig & Bernauer, 2009; Bernauer & Koubi, 2009; Congleton, 1992), while others have been more sceptical of this claim (Li & Reuveny, 2006; Shearman & Smith, 2007; Ward, 2008).”
Explaining national environmental performance: approaches, evidence, and implications (2011, background): “generally, but with qualifications, are more environmentally protective than less democratic ones (Barrett and Graddy 2000; Congleton 1992; Farzin and Bond 2006; Li and Reuveny 2006; Torras and Boyce 1998).”
Ecologically Unequal Exchange, World Polity, and Biodiversity Loss (2009, background): “Therefore, environmental groups are often more successful at informing people and organizing them to act in democratic rather than in repressive nations (Li and Reuveny, 2006).”
The International Law and Politics of Climate Change Ratification of the United Nations Framework Convention and the Kyoto Protocol (2008, background): “…contributors consider democracy an important variable, either as a core theoretical component (Hansen, McLaughlin Mitchell, and Nemeth 2008 [this issue]; Mansfield and Pevehouse 2008 [this issue]) or as a control (Dorussen and Ward 2008 [this issue]; Hafner-Burton and Montgomery 2008 [this issue]).”
Climate policy innovation in the South – Domestic and international determinants of renewable energy policies in developing and emerging countries (2014, result): “While some literature has questioned this democracy-environment link (e.g. Midlarsky, 1998), newer studies such as those by Fredriksson and Gaston (2000), Neumayer (2002), and Li and Reuveny (2006), show that democracies tend to show stronger environmental commitment than nondemocracies.”
Environmental changes and violent conflict (2012, background): “In effect, several studies have identified a significantly positive relationship between democracy and environmental performance (e.g. Bernauer and Koubi 2009, Li and Reuveny 2006).”
The limits of democracy in tackling climate change (2018, background): “The existing literature has comprehensively summarized arguments on how democracy can benefit or harm environmental commitments (see e.g. Li and Reuveny 2006, Bättig and Bernauer 2009, Bernauer and Koubi 2009, Spilker 2013, Sjöstedt and Jagers 2014).”