A New Look at the Democracy–Environment Nexus: Evidence from Panel Data for High- and Low-Income Countries

Kim, Soohyeon; Baek, Jungho; Heo, Eunnyeong

doi:10.3390/su11082353

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“…The larger coefficient of fossil fuels shows the mitigating effect of renewables is yet to offset the deteriorating effect of fossil fuel energy consumption. This segment of empirical results is parallel with theoretical expectations and former literature (see Lv (2017); Farzanegan and Markwardt (2018); Kim et al (2019)).…”

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Analyzing transport demand and environmental degradation: the case of G-7 countries

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Adedoyin

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Environ Dev Sustain

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The debate for green development has been ongoing in the energy and environment literature-especially initiatives to mitigate climate change. On this note, we explore the effects of the air and railway transport demand, fossil-fuel energy consumption, demographic policies, economic growth, and alternative energy consumption on environmental degradation in Group of Seven (G7) economies. Using robust panel estimation techniques that account for cross-sectional dependency, empirical results affirm the presence of long-run relationships among variables. Besides, the results give credence to the environmental Kuznets Curve hypothesis (EKC) in G7 countries over the sampled period. We observe that demand for air transport, energy from fossil fuel sources, and economic development dampen environmental quality by 0.12%, 0.33%, and 46.54%, respectively.Interesting, renewable energy and rail transportation demand improves environmental quality. This outcome resonates with the need for alternative and clean energy production and consumption (Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)-11 and 12) while improving the fight against climate change--especially the adoption of clean energy technologies in the air transport sector for sustainable growth.

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confidence: 87%

Analyzing transport demand and environmental degradation: the case of G-7 countries

Erdoğan

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Adedoyin

et al. 2022

Environ Dev Sustain

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“…Democracies are also better in adopting environment regulations and ensuring that they are respected (Winslow 2005;Gallagher and Thacker 2008;Bernauer and Koubi 2009). Statistically, the correlation between democracy and environment protection is, however, not entirely persuasive, and some studies show that the effect of democracy is weaker or even missing in poor countries and in countries with a high level of corruption, as will be discussed later in this paper (Kim, Baek and Heo 2019).…”

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Democracy and the Challenge of Climate Change

Lindvall¹

2021

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Climate change actions in democracies face perceived challenges such as short-term bias in decision-making, policy capture or inconsistency, weak accountability mechanisms and the permeability of the policy-making process to interests adverse to fighting climate change through the role of money in politics. Apart from its intrinsic value to citizens, democracy also brings critical advantages in formulating effective climate policy, such as representative parliaments which can hold governments to account, widespread civic participation, independent media and a free flow of information, the active engagement by civil society organizations in policymaking and the capacity for institutional learning in the face of complex issues with long-term and global social and political implications. International IDEA’s work on change and democracy aims to support democratic institutions to successfully confront the climate crisis by leveraging their advantages and overcoming the challenges to formulating effective and democratically owned climate policy agendas.

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“…This study draws upon the survey data from the 6 th wave of the World Value Survey (WVS) for Malaysia in 2011-2012 that involves 1198 respondents. The WVS data has widely been used by scholars, government officials, journalists, students, and international organisations from different fields of study (Kim et al, 2019;Davis et al, 2021). The 2011-2012 data is used to reflect post 2008 Malaysian General Election, after which the turnout rate continues to increase steadily till the 2018 General Election.…”

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The Contradictory Effects of Digital Access and Life Satisfaction on Voting Behaviours: a Retrospective Look at the 2008 Malaysian General Election

Koay

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Wong

2023

IJBS

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This paper explores the relationship between life satisfaction and voting intention by analysing the 2008 General Election in Malaysia. The election was significant because of the high turnout rate since 1964 and the rise of digital media in political communication. The latter leads to the second objective of this paper: to investigate whether the presence of digital media reshapes voting behaviours across different levels of life satisfaction. Using the 6th wave of World Value Survey data of 1198 respondents with the Hierarchical Linear Regression Modelling, we show that unhappier voters are more likely to vote. However, by democratising access to information and lowering barriers to connect with voters via digital media, voting intention is levelled irrespective of the degree of life satisfaction. While happier voters pay more attention to the social economic issues and thus are more likely to react to news disseminated via digital media by voting, it is equally likely that unhappier voters provoked by negative news through digital media have greater intention to voice out by casting a vote too.

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A New Look at the Democracy–Environment Nexus: Evidence from Panel Data for High- and Low-Income Countries

Cited by 16 publications

References 27 publications

Analyzing transport demand and environmental degradation: the case of G-7 countries

Analyzing transport demand and environmental degradation: the case of G-7 countries

Democracy and the Challenge of Climate Change

The Contradictory Effects of Digital Access and Life Satisfaction on Voting Behaviours: a Retrospective Look at the 2008 Malaysian General Election

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