Sturm, Daniel and List, John (2002) Politics and environmental policy: theory and evidence from US states. In: EEA 2002, 22-24 Aug 2002, Venice, Italy. (Unpublished)
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) |
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| Official URL: | http://www.eea-esem.com/eea-esem/eea2002/prog/ |
| Additional Information: | © 2002 the authors |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Environmental Policy, Political Economy, Term Limits |
| Library of Congress subject classification: | J Political Science > JC Political theory G Geography. Anthropology. Recreation > GE Environmental Sciences |
| Journal of Economic Literature Classification System: | 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 |
| Sets: | Collections > Economists Online Research centres and groups > Centre for Economic Performance (CEP) Departments > Economics |
| Rights: | http://www.lse.ac.uk/library/rights/LSERO.htm |
| URL: | http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/20900/ |
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