Is Democracy Good for the Environment? Quasi-Experimental Evidence from Regime Transitions

Laura Policardo

Department of Economics University of Siena from Department of Economics, University of Siena

Abstract: This paper tests the hypothesis that democratisation is conducive to less environmental depletion due to human activity. Using Interrupted Time Series (ITS) design for a panel of 47 transition countries and two indexes of pollution, CO2 emissions and PM10 concentrations, I find that democracies and dictatorships have two different targets of environmental quality, with those of democracies higher than those of dictatorships. Income inequality may as well alter this targets, but with opposite effects in the two different regimes

Keywords: Democracy; Environment; Cointegration; Interrupted Time Series; Segmented Regression (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C23 D31 H23 Q51 Q58 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010-12
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