Democracy, Autocracy, and Everything in Between
How Domestic Institutions Affect Environmental Protection
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6227483 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jana Von Stein (0000-0001-7915-7315, Australian National University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 52 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 339-357 |
| Publication date | 2022-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | British Journal of Political Science (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0007-1234 • E-ISSN: 1469-2112 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s000712342000054x |
| OpenAlex | W3116915008 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 19 |
| References cited | 90 |
As major global challenges intensify in the twenty-first century, which domestic institutions will best enable countries to take decisive and positive action? This article explores this question in the realm of environmental policy. Scholars and practitioners have long argued that ‘democracy’ yields the best environmental outcomes, but others now maintain that ‘eco-authoritarianism’ may be the best way forward. The author unpacks the theoretical mechanisms behind these debates, and adds important nuance in making three arguments. First, the link between elections and eco-policy depends on what citizens want. Secondly, the relationship between civil liberties protections and environmentalism depends on which actors within society hold power. Finally, political constraints make environmental policy change – be it environmentally friendly or damaging – more difficult. The study empirically tests these arguments and finds strong support for the expectations regarding elections and civil liberties. There is only limited evidence that constraints stymie eco-policy change
Action (physics · Authoritarianism · Autocracy · Civil liberties · Civil society · Democracy · Economic system · Economics · Environmentalism · Law and economics · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Realm · Energy, Environment, and Transportation Policies · Energy, Environment, Economic Growth · Environmental Justice and Health Disparities · Law
Forging environmentalism
Authoritarian diversity and its limits
Role of governance index, democracy, industrialization, and urbanization on environmental sustainability of BRICS countries
A Dynamic Collapse Concept for Climate Change
Automaticity and delegation in climate targets
Participation in Energy Transitions
Dynamic environmental agreements and lower income countries
The Enduring Credibility Challenge of Long-Term Global Environmental Policy
Is Democracy the Answer to Intractable Climate Change
What's Impact of Multi‐Dimensional Globalization in Accelerating Green Technology Diffusion
Environmental commitments in different types of democracies
Are foreign firms good for the environment? FDI and protected areas
Conservation for nature and wildlife’s sake
Term Limits and Environmental Treaty Commitments
Varying Vistas
Ecosystems and Ordering
Do institutions matter in a crisis? Regime type and decisive responses to Covid-19
How does democracy impact the environment? An economic and political analysis of load capacity in Egypt
Autocracies and policy accumulation
An inquiry into the human prospect
Carbon Captured
Reason in a Dark Time
Responsive Authoritarianism in China
Estimating economic damage from climate change in the United States
Lung Cancer, Cardiopulmonary Mortality, and Long-term Exposure to Fine Particulate Air Pollution
Environmentalism, democracy, and pollution control
Freedom, growth, and the environment
Fitting Linear Mixed-Effects Models Using lme4
Veto Players
Degrees of Democracy
Civic Environmental NGOs, Civil Society, and Democratisation in China
How Dictatorships Work
Political Institutions under Dictatorship
Political Institutions and Pollution Control
Deliberative Democracy and Beyond
The Climate Change Challenge and the Failure of Democracy
Public opinion and environmental policy output
Income, inequality, and pollution
Democracy and climate change policies
Effects of political institutions on air quality
Kingdom of the Sun
Does the Conceptualization and Measurement of Democracy Quality Matter in Comparative Climate Policy Research
Coming to Terms with the Authoritarian Alternative
Interests, institutions, and climate policy
Advocacy in an Authoritarian State
Pollution, Institutions and Street Protests in Urban China
Why do Authoritarian Regimes Provide Public Goods? Policy Communities, External Shocks and Ideas in China’s Rural Social Policy Making
Could more civil society involvement increase public support for climate policy-making? Evidence from a survey experiment in China
Effects of civil society involvement on popular legitimacy of global environmental governance
Liberalism, Illiberalism, and the Environment
Democracy and environmental quality
Democracy, visibility and public good provision
An Inquiry into the Human Prospect
Democracy and dictatorship revisited
Public good provision under dictatorship and democracy
Democratic institutions versus autocratic regimes
Parliamentary Elections and Authoritarian Rule in Morocco
An Economic Theory of Political Action in a Democracy
National Adaptation to European Integration
National Institutions and Global Public Goods
Authoritarian environmentalism and China's response to climate change
Vetoing the future
It Is All about Political Incentives
Patterns of disagreement in indicators of state repression
Explaining Fixed Effects
Checks, Balances, and the Cost of Regulation
Which Elections Can Be Lost
Random Coefficient Models for Time-Series—Cross-Section Data
A Bayesian Multilevel Modeling Approach to Time-Series Cross-Sectional Data
Empirical Strategies for Various Manifestations of Multilevel Data
Freedom and the Environment
Monarchy and Political Reform in Morocco
The New Competitive Authoritarianism
Winning Coalition Size, State Capacity, and Time Horizons
Democracy and Environmental Degradation
The marginal impact of Engos in different types of democratic systems
Civil society participation in global governance
Democratic inclusiveness, climate policy outputs, and climate policy outcomes
The Invisible Hand of Democracy
Research Frontiers in Comparative and International Environmental Politics
State Capacity and the Environmental Investment Gap in Authoritarian States
Balancing Priorities, Aligning Interests
Elections, Information, and Policy Responsiveness in Autocratic Regimes
Causal Heterogeneity in Comparative Research
Comparing ecological sustainability in autocracies and democracies
The 2006 Military Takeover in Fiji
The limits of democracy in tackling climate change
Democracy and the Environment
The triangular relationship between public concern for environmental issues, policy output, and media attention
Modernisation, authoritarianism, and the environment
Citizens as veto players
Green means stop
Traversing more than speed bumps
Compliance with EU environmental law. The iceberg is melting
Liberal democracy and sustainability
Do Democracies Exhibit Stronger International Environmental Commitment? A Cross-country Analysis
The Limits of Delegation
The 2006 Military Takeover in Fiji
| Unique citing works | 19 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 3,17 |
| Citation span | 2020 - 2026 (7) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 17 |