Disentangling Democracy: Which Democratic Institutions Matter for Environmental Performance?

• In Event: Institutions, Democracy, Inequality & the Environment

Brief Overview

This paper investigates the relationship between regime type and environmental performance by using novel and concept-specific data from the Varieties of Democracy Project predicting changes in forest cover over time.

Authors

• Martin Sjöstedt, University of Gothenburg

• Sverker C. Jagers, Department of Political Science, University of Gothenburg

• Oskar Rydén, University of Gothenburg