Environmental Performance in Democracies and Autocracies: Democratic Qualities and Environmental Protection

There are considerable differences in environmental performance and outcomes across both democracies and auracies, but there is little understanding of how levels of democracy and auracy influence environmental performance. This book examines whether analysing the effects of individual democratic features separately can contribute to a better understanding of cross-national variance in environmental performance. The authors show that levels of social equality in particular, as well as the s...