NDLI: Democracy, income and pollution

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Author	Eriksson, Clas Persson, Joakim
Copyright Year	2013
Abstract	Empirical evidence suggests that increased democracy reduces pollution. Using a median-voter model (where a democratization reform typically changes the income of the median voter), we analyze how the effect of a change of the individual income differs from the effect of a change in the economy-wide productivity in the determination of pollution. We find that a democratization reform that brings poorer groups into the franchise leads to lower pollution only if the elasticity of the marginal utility of consumption, σ, is smaller than unity. At the same time, the EKC literature suggests that a country tends to improve aspects of the environment as its per capita income rises, at least when it is above some critical level. For the model to be consistent with this observation, when σ < 1, the transformation function between income and pollution must be generous, i.e. little income has to be given up as pollution is reduced.
Starting Page	291
Ending Page	308
Page Count	18
File Format	PDF
ISSN	1432847X
Journal	Environmental Economics and Policy Studies
Volume Number	15
Issue Number	3
e-ISSN	1867383X
Language	English
Publisher	Springer Japan
Publisher Date	2013-02-23
Publisher Place	Tokyo
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Environmental policy Voting Democracy Pollution Environmental Economics Social Policy
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Economics and Econometrics Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law

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