Environmental Challenges and Political Regime Transition: The Role of Historical Legacies and the European Union in Eurasia

This paper addresses the impact of political regimes on carbon emissions (CO2) from a historical perspective, covering the period of 1970–2015. Our sample consists of 153 countries that we follow for 20 years before the transition (1970–1990) and 26 years after it (1990–2015). During transition, pos...

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Autores: Nazarov, Zafar, Obydenkova, Anastassia V.
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Fecha de publicación:2022
País:España
Institución:Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC)
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spelling Environmental Challenges and Political Regime Transition: The Role of Historical Legacies and the European Union in EurasiaNazarov, ZafarObydenkova, Anastassia V.This paper addresses the impact of political regimes on carbon emissions (CO2) from a historical perspective, covering the period of 1970–2015. Our sample consists of 153 countries that we follow for 20 years before the transition (1970–1990) and 26 years after it (1990–2015). During transition, post-Communist states experienced a decline in CO2, when controlling for economic variables. Transition had a positive impact on the environment only in cases when it was associated with democratization. When transition has led to consolidation of autocratic regimes, CO2 has increased.Anastassia Obydenkova thanks the Basic Research Program of the National Research University Higher School of Economics (HSE University) for supporting her research. She is grateful to the Center for the Institutional Studies of the National Research University Higher School of Economics and to the Institute for Economic Analysis of the Spanish Council for Scientific Research (IAE-CSIC) for hosting her as a research fellow and affiliate. The findings of this paper were presented at Columbia University in New York (2017), Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona (2017), and New York University (2018). We thank the parti-cipants of these events for their insightful comments and suggestions. We are especially grateful to Joshua Tucker, Ada Ferrer-i-Carbonell, and Elise Giuliano for their great feedback on this project.Peer reviewedTaylor & FrancisNational Research University Higher School of Economics (Russia)CSIC - Instituto de Análisis Económico (IAE)Columbia UniversityUniversidad Autónoma de BarcelonaNew York UniversityObydenkova, Anastassia V. [0000-0001-5099-5294]202420242022info:eu-repo/semantics/articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_6501Publisher's versioninfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersionapplication/pdfhttp://hdl.handle.net/10261/358820https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/85120047174reponame:DIGITAL.CSIC. Repositorio Institucional del CSICinstname:Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC)Ingléshttps://doi.org/10.1080/10758216.2021.1995437Noinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessoai:digital.csic.es:10261/3588202026-05-22T06:33:51Z
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title Environmental Challenges and Political Regime Transition: The Role of Historical Legacies and the European Union in Eurasia
spellingShingle Environmental Challenges and Political Regime Transition: The Role of Historical Legacies and the European Union in Eurasia
Nazarov, Zafar
title_short Environmental Challenges and Political Regime Transition: The Role of Historical Legacies and the European Union in Eurasia
title_full Environmental Challenges and Political Regime Transition: The Role of Historical Legacies and the European Union in Eurasia
title_fullStr Environmental Challenges and Political Regime Transition: The Role of Historical Legacies and the European Union in Eurasia
title_full_unstemmed Environmental Challenges and Political Regime Transition: The Role of Historical Legacies and the European Union in Eurasia
title_sort Environmental Challenges and Political Regime Transition: The Role of Historical Legacies and the European Union in Eurasia
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Obydenkova, Anastassia V.
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New York University
Obydenkova, Anastassia V. [0000-0001-5099-5294]
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