Environmental decentralization and political centralization

• Autores: Per G. Fredriksson, Jim R. Wollscheid
• Localización: Ecological Economics, ISSN-e 1873-6106, Nº. 107, 2014, págs. 402-410
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • In this paper, we investigate how political institutions affect policy outcomes. In particular, does the level of political centralization affect the outcome of environmental decentralization? We use a cross section of up to 110 countries and a propensity score estimation approach. We find that political centralization, measured by the strength of national level political parties, increases the stringency of environmental policies set under decentralized regimes.