Politics and environmental policy: theory and evidence from US states

Sturm, Daniel ORCID: 0000-0001-6408-8089 and List, John (2002) Politics and environmental policy: theory and evidence from US states. In: EEA 2002, 2002-08-22 - 2002-08-24, Venice, Italy, ITA. (Submitted)

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Abstract

We develop a two dimensional political agency model, which is in the spirit of the political agency literature. A politician, who faces peridic elections, has to decide on the level of public spending and an environmental regulation. We introduce a term limit into this model and develop the predictions of the model for the differences in envrionmental policy between years in which the politician does and does not face a binding term limit. These predictions are tested on panel data on environmental policy choices of US governors for the years 1960-98.

Item Type:	Conference or Workshop Item (Paper)
Official URL:	http://www.eea-esem.com/eea-esem/eea2002/prog/
Additional Information:	© 2002 the authors
Divisions:	Centre for Economic Performance Economics
Subjects:	J Political Science > JC Political theory G Geography. Anthropology. Recreation > GE Environmental Sciences
JEL classification:	D - Microeconomics > D7 - Analysis of Collective Decision-Making > D72 - Economic Models of Political Processes: Rent-Seeking, Elections, Legislatures, and Voting Behavior Q - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics > Q2 - Renewable Resources and Conservation > Q28 - Government Policy
Date Deposited:	18 Aug 2008 11:38
Last Modified:	12 Dec 2024 04:38
URI:	http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/20900

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