Environmental Performance in Democracies and Autocracies: Democratic Qualities and Environmental Protection

✍ Scribed by Romy Escher, Melanie Walter-Rogg

• Publisher: Palgrave Pivot
• Year: 2020
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 167
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

There are considerable differences in environmental performance and outcomes across both democracies and autocracies, but there is little understanding of how levels of democracy and autocracy influence environmental performance. This book examines whether analysing the effects of individual democratic features separately can contribute to a better understanding of cross-national variance in environmental performance. The authors show that levels of social equality in particular, as well as the strength of local and regional democracy, contribute significantly to explaining cross-national variation in environmental performance. On the other hand, a high level of political corruption affects a country’s ability to adopt and implement environmental policies effectively. In exploring the inter-relationship between democratic qualities, political corruption, and environmental performance, this book presents policymakers and political theorists with a clear picture of which aspects of democratic societies are most conducive to producing a better environment.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
About the Authors
List of Figures
List of Tables
1 Introduction
References
2 Disentangling the Effect of the Regime Type on Environmental Performance
2.1 Environmental Performance
2.2 Regime Type and Environmental Performance
2.3 Models of Democracy and Environmental Performance
2.4 Democratic Qualities and Environmental Performance
2.4.1 Electoral Accountability
2.4.2 Political Rights
2.4.3 Civil Rights
2.4.4 Horizontal Accountability
2.4.5 Deliberation Quality
2.4.6 Social Equality
2.4.7 Non-electoral Participation
2.4.8 Local and Regional Democracy
2.4.9 Conclusion
2.5 Research Design
References
3 Democratic Qualities and Environmental Performance in Democracies
3.1 Democratic Models and Environmental Performance
3.2 Democratic Qualities and Environmental Performance
3.2.1 Local Air Pollution
3.2.2 Global Air Pollution
3.3 Conclusion
References
4 Democratic Qualities and Environmental Performance in Autocracies
4.1 Democracy Models and Environmental Performance
4.2 Democratic Qualities and Environmental Performance
4.2.1 Local Air Pollution
4.2.2 Global Air Pollution
4.3 Conclusion
References
5 Democracy Quality, Political Corruption and Environmental Performance
5.1 Introduction
5.2 Political Corruption and Environmental Performance
5.3 Social Equality, Political Corruption and Environmental Performance
5.4 Democracy on the Local and Regional Levels, Political Corruption and Environmental Performance
5.5 Empirical Analysis
5.5.1 Political Corruption and Environmental Performance
5.5.2 Democracy Qualities, Political Corruption and Environmental Performance in Democracies
5.5.3 Democracy Qualities, Political Corruption and Environmental Performance in Autocracies
5.6 Conclusion
References
6 Summary, Conclusions and Policy Implications
6.1 Summary
6.2 Implications and Limitations of the Findings
References
Index