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Who cares about the environment? An empirical analysis of theevolution of political parties’ environmental concern in Europeancountries (1970–2008)

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  • François Facchini

    (CES - Centre d'économie de la Sorbonne - UP1 - Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique)

  • Giuseppe Lucio Gaeta

    (University of Naples Federico II = Università degli studi di Napoli Federico II)

  • Benjamin Michallet

    (PSE - Paris School of Economics - UP1 - Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne - ENS-PSL - École normale supérieure - Paris - PSL - Université Paris Sciences et Lettres - EHESS - École des hautes études en sciences sociales - ENPC - École des Ponts ParisTech - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique - INRAE - Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement, CES - Centre d'économie de la Sorbonne - UP1 - Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique)

Abstract

Why do parties offer environmental policies in their political programs? While a number of papersexamine the determinants of citizens' pro-environmental behaviour, we know little about the extentto which political parties adjust their platform towards environmentalism. We investigate this processthrough data provided by the Manifesto Project Dataset (CMP) for 20 European countries over the period1970-2008. 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.

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  • François Facchini & Giuseppe Lucio Gaeta & Benjamin Michallet, 2017. "Who cares about the environment? An empirical analysis of theevolution of political parties’ environmental concern in Europeancountries (1970–2008)," PSE-Ecole d'économie de Paris (Postprint) hal-01485407, HAL.
    • Handle: RePEc:hal:pseptp:hal-01485407
    DOI: 10.1016/j.landusepol.2017.02.017
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    1. You, Zhuoying & Teirlinck, Peter, 2024. "Specialization in climate technologies at the regional level in Europe: relatedness and the moderating role of policy direction," Technological Forecasting and Social Change, Elsevier, vol. 203(C).
    2. Cicatiello, Lorenzo & Ercolano, Salvatore & Gaeta, Giuseppe Lucio & Pinto, Mauro, 2020. "Willingness to pay for environmental protection and the importance of pollutant industries in the regional economy. Evidence from Italy," Ecological Economics, Elsevier, vol. 177(C).
    3. Chang, Chun-Ping & Wen, Jun & Dong, Minyi & Hao, Yu, 2018. "Does government ideology affect environmental pollutions? New evidence from instrumental variable quantile regression estimations," Energy Policy, Elsevier, vol. 113(C), pages 386-400.

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