Is Democracy the Answer to Intractable Climate Change?

• In Event: Macro-level Institutions as Explanations for Action on Environmental Policy

Brief Overview

We investigate whether regime type influences action to address climate change employing the generalized synthetic control (gsynth) method with data from the World Bank and the Varieties of Democracy (V-Dem) Project.

Authors

• Angela Chesler, University of Notre Dame

• Debra Javeline, University of Notre Dame

• Zi En, Kimberly Peh, University of Notre Dame

• Shana Scogin, University of Notre Dame