Corruption, political competition and environmental policy

Wilson, John K.; Damania, Richard

doi:10.1016/j.jeem.2004.06.004

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“…For example, it may be that where increased competition reduces political corruption and policies that facilitate degradation, administrative corruption may grow as the gains increase to avoiding more restrictive resource use policies (Wilson and Damania 2005). Thus, improvements in one domain need not be accompanied by progress in the other.…”

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The Complex Links between Governance and Biodiversity

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Abstract:We argue that two problems weaken the claims of those who link corruption and the exploitation of natural resources. The first is conceptual. Studies that use national level indicators of corruption fail to note that corruption comes in many fofms, at multiple levels, that may affect resource use quite differently: negatively, positively or not at all. Without a clear causal model of the mechanism by which corruption affects resources, one should treat with caution any estimated relationship between corruption and the state of natural resources. The second problem is methodological. Simple, atheoretical models linking corruption measures and natural resource use typically 4o not account for other important control variables pivotal to the relationship between huijaans and natural resources. By way of illustration of these two general concerns, we demonstrate that the findings of a recent, well-known study that posits a link between corruption and decreases in forests and elephants are not robust to simple conceptuaf and methodological refinements.

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The Complex Links between Governance and Biodiversity

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“…According to Transparency International [45], many countries within the MENA region are near the bottom of the transparency index making them very corrupt. Corruption has many forms and exist at all governmental levels.…”

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“…Corruption has many forms and exist at all governmental levels. According to Wilson and Damania (2005) [46], corruption is one of the major causes of environmental degradation in developing countries. The corruption plague in MENA region has reached a tipping point that has burst social unrest and street riots in North Africa [8].…”

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Water Shortage in MENA Region: An Interdisciplinary Overview and a Suite of Practical Solutions

Zyadin¹

2013

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The chronic water shortage in the Middle East North Africa (MENA) region is a perplexing issue, undoubtedly because various operational sectors, multi-institutions and stakeholders are inextricably interconnected. In the light of climate variability and the unprecedented population growth rate, the per capita water resources and biocapacity will continue plummeting, and the demand-gap will seriously expand. Existing water quantification agreements have been deemed inefficient to solve the problem of naturally diminishing water resources and thus require immediate re-assembling. Most scholarly endeavors, including key international organizations, NGOs, and "Think Tank" policy briefs have limitedly addressed water shortage in contexts of regional politics, mass media, and, importantly, from social psychology perspectives. Therefore, a thorough analysis and interdisciplinary approach is required to find a feasible and suitable framework of solutions and from a multi-perspective podium. A synthesis of cross-sectorial bottlenecks that are crucial to water management is presented, and a suite of practical recommendations are introduced to water authorities and governments. This study argues that in the shadow of the region's political instability, the clash of ideologies and its repercussions, and issues of national security and sovereignty, regional cooperation on water issues remain prognostications. In this essence, governments of MENA countries are urged to develop measures to substantially increase the water supply through innovative approaches. Such measures include enhancing the capacities of water harvesting, maximizing the storage capacities of the built dams, and deploying groundwater recharge techniques. Furthermore, seawater and brackish water desalination through clean energy technologies is a contemporary solution with socio-economic and multiple benefits. Multi-billion water projects might not be suitable approach in the absence of external funding and the aforementioned hurdles. Further research is required to address the social economics, and environmental aspects of desalination and the socio-economic feasibility of privatizing drinking water utilities and price polarization.

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“…Neumayer (2004) and the many references there in for empirical evidence. 2 With the exception of Wilson and Damania (2005) who combine common agency and Downsian Recent surveys of this literature include Heyes and Dijkstra (2001) and Oates and Portney (2003).…”

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Secondary issues and party politics: an application to environmental policy

Anesi

Donder

2010

Soc Choice Welf

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The paper develops a political economy model to assess the interplay between party formation and an environmental policy dimension viewed as secondary to the redistributive dimension. We de…ne being a secondary issue in terms of the intensity of preferences over this issue rather than in terms of the proportion of voters who care for the environment. Equilibrium policies are the outcome of an electoral competition game between endogenous parties.We obtain the following results: i) The Pigouvian tax never emerges in an equilibrium; ii) The equilibrium environmental tax is larger when there is a minority of green voters; iii) Stable green parties exist only if there is a minority of green voters and income polarization is large enough relative to the saliency of the environmental issue. We also study the redistributive policies advocated by green parties.JEL Code: D72, H23

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Corruption, political competition and environmental policy

Cited by 119 publications

References 32 publications

The Complex Links between Governance and Biodiversity

The Complex Links between Governance and Biodiversity

Water Shortage in MENA Region: An Interdisciplinary Overview and a Suite of Practical Solutions

Secondary issues and party politics: an application to environmental policy

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