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

Year: 2017

Type: article

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.

Source: Land Use Policy

DOI: 10.1016/j.landusepol.2017.02.017

Authors: François Facchini, Giuseppe Lucio Gaeta, Benjamin Michallet

Institutions: Centre d'Économie de la Sorbonne, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, University of Naples - L'Orientale, University of Naples Federico II, Paris School of Economics

Language: English

Topic: Electoral Systems and Political Participation

Subfield: Political Science and International Relations

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

SDG: Climate action

Open Access status: hybrid

Estimated APC paid: $3,830