Legal Origins and Climate Change Policies in Former Colonies

Per Fredriksson and Jim Wollscheid

Environmental & Resource Economics, 2015, vol. 62, issue 2, 309-327

Abstract: In this paper, we investigate how former colonies’ legal origins affect environmental policy outcomes. In particular, does it matter for climate change policies whether a country has French civil law or British common law legal heritage? In a cross section of up to 109 countries, we find that civil law countries tend to have stricter climate change policies than common law countries. Copyright Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2015

Keywords: Legal history; Climate change; Environmental policy; Institutions; Colonialism; Political economy; Q58; D72; D78; H23; K23 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1007/s10640-015-9957-2

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