Do government ideology and fragmentation matter for reducing CO2-emissions? Empirical evidence from OECD countries

Garmann, Sebastian

doi:10.1016/j.ecolecon.2014.05.011

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“…Nevertheless, there is also clearly the potential for ideological differences to affect international business activity, as the solutions to socio-political problems will vary across countries given that 'shared mental models' (Denzau and North 1994) are culturally grounded and often location based. Research on the role of ideology in the international business context mostly entails largescale quantitative work focusing on how political ideologies (usually of the right-left typology) impact economic outcomes such as the degree of state ownership (Avsar et al 2013) or environmental protection (Garmann 2014).…”

Section: The Role Of Ideologymentioning

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Contesting a Place in the Sun: On Ideologies in Foreign Markets and Liabilities of Origin

Kolk

Curran

2015

J Bus Ethics

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This paper explores the role of ideology in attempts to influence public policy and in business representation in the EU-China solar panel anti-dumping dispute. It exposes the dynamics of international activity by emergingeconomy multinationals, in this case from China, and their interactions in a developed-country context (the EU). Theoretically, the study also sheds light on the recent notion of 'liability of origin', in addition to the traditional concept of 'liability of foreignness' explored in international business research, in relation to firms' market and political strategies and their institutional embeddedness in home and host countries. Through a qualitative analysis of primary and secondary materials and interview data with key protagonists, we provide a detailed evolution of the case, the key actors involved and their positions, arguments and strategies. This illustrates the complexities involved in the interaction between markets and ideologies in the midst of debates regarding different forms of subsidy regimes for renewable energy, free trade versus protectionist tendencies by governments, and the economic and sustainability objectives of firms and societies. The case shows how relative newcomers to the EU market responded to overcome a direct threat to their business and became, with support from their home government, active participants in the public debate through interactions with local commercial partners and non-governmental organisations. Firms adopted relatively sophisticated strategies to reduce their liabilities vis-à-vis host-country institutions and local stakeholders, including collective action, to increase their legitimacy and reputation, and counter ideologically based attacks. We also discuss implications and limitations.

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Section: The Role Of Ideologymentioning

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Contesting a Place in the Sun: On Ideologies in Foreign Markets and Liabilities of Origin

Kolk

Curran

2015

J Bus Ethics

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“…Not presenting an environmental pro-position would have a significant cost for parties as it should reduce votes and increase the probability of electoral defeat (Michallet et al, 2015). In other words, it is expected that the low levels of environmental quality will increase the sensitivity of voters towards environmental issues which, in turn, is expected to -considering that there is a political market for environmental issues (Garmann, 2014) -produce a shift towards environmentalism in parties' political programs (if parties were to meet the electorate's demand). This situation was named by Michallet et al (2015) the "ecological approach".…”

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“…After examining whether government ideology and fragmentation have influenced the process of CO2-emission reductions in 19 OECD countries within 1992-2008, Garmann (2014 finds that right-wing governments are associated with emission reduction to a smaller extent than center and left-wing governments. Moreover, it seems like emissions are higher the more parties are in a government.…”

Section: Other Pressure Factors Affecting a Political Party's Environmentioning

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Relevant Determinants of the Political Parties’ Environmental Preference

Apostoaie

2016

Scientific Annals of Economics and Business

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An instrument that political parties use to inform the electorate with regard to their policy preference (including preference towards the environment) is the electoral manifest. This paper analyses some important drivers that push political parties towards adopting pro-environmental attitudes by analysing the content included in their electoral manifestos (using the Comparative Manifesto Dataset). As explanatory factors we consider various socio-economic, ideological and international related variables, but our main focus is on environmental related determinants. We proceed as such because the paper aims to test the validity of 'the ecological approach' given that the current literature overlooks this issue or doesn't succeed in providing strong evidence of its existence. Our dataset covers 49 countries worldwide and a total of 190 national electoral years, occurring between 2000 and 2015. The resulting evidence, which might confirm the validity of 'the ecological approach', is rather weak, but there is nonetheless strong evidence to prove the existence of an opportunistic behaviour of the political parties (confirming the validity of the 'opportunistic political cycle').

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“…Imagine right-wing and left-wing activists, being the former more prone to polluting policies when in power (Garmann, 2014).…”

Section: A Model Of Pollution and Political Activismmentioning

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Voting for the environment : the importance of Democracy and education in Latin america

Callejas¹

2015

ecoca

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Do government ideology and fragmentation matter for reducing CO2-emissions? Empirical evidence from OECD countries

Cited by 79 publications

References 52 publications

Contesting a Place in the Sun: On Ideologies in Foreign Markets and Liabilities of Origin

Contesting a Place in the Sun: On Ideologies in Foreign Markets and Liabilities of Origin

Relevant Determinants of the Political Parties’ Environmental Preference

Voting for the environment : the importance of Democracy and education in Latin america

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