Greening Up or Not? The Determinants Political Parties’ Environmental Concern: An Empirical Analysis Based on European Data (1970-2008)

Benjamin Michallet, Giuseppe Lucio Gaeta and François Facchini
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Benjamin Michallet: University Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne/Paris School of Economics, Paris (France)
Giuseppe Lucio Gaeta: University of Naples, L’Orientale, Naples (Italy)
François Facchini: University of Paris 11 (RITM), Paris (France)

No 2015.25, Working Papers from Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei

Abstract: Why do parties offer environmental policies in their political programs? While a number of papers examine the determinants of citizens’ pro-environmental behaviour, we know little about the extent to which political parties adjust their platform towards environmentalism. We investigate this process through data provided by the Manifesto Project Dataset (CMP) for 20 European countries over the period 1970-2008. Following the literature on public concern towards environment, we examine economic, environmental and political determinants. Our findings provide evidence that political parties’ environmental concern is strongly correlated with their political ideology and with country-level economic conditions.

Keywords: Environmental Concern; Environmental Attitudes; Political Parties; Electoral Manifestos (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D78 Q58 Z13 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015-03
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-env, nep-eur and nep-pol
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