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- Title
Party Discipline and Environmental Policy: The Role of “Smoke-filled Back Rooms”.
- Authors
Fredriksson, Per G.; Wollscheid, Jim R.
- Abstract
We adopt the view that greater party discipline induces legislators to commit to promised policies after being elected. We then develop the hypothesis that the effect of party discipline on the stringency of environmental policy is conditional on the degree of government corruption. Our empirical work suggests that greater party discipline results in more stringent environmental policies when the level of corruption is relatively low, but in weaker policies when the level of corruption is comparatively high.
- Subjects
POLITICAL corruption; GOVERNMENT policy; ENVIRONMENTAL policy; POLITICAL systems; LEGISLATORS
- Publication
Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2010, Vol 112, Issue 3, p489
- ISSN
0347-0520
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1467-9442.2010.01618.x