Environmental Constituent Interest, Green Electricity Policies, and Legislative Voting

Chupp, B. Andrew

doi:10.1016/j.jeem.2011.03.008

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“…Under the decentralized system, local governments have a higher taxation power and administrative power, and are highly likely to lower the environmental standards to attract high-pollution and energy-consuming enterprises to boost investment, raise taxes, and increase employment opportunities. However, the decentralized system leads to vicious competition among local governments, intensifies local protection, focuses on short-term growth goals at the expense of long-term development, lowers environmental regulatory standards, and hinders the improvement of environmental performance [18][19][20].…”

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Market Segmentation and Green Development Performance: Evidence from Chinese Cities

Dong

Liang

et al. 2023

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This study is based on 2006–2019 panel data from 282 Chinese cities. Market segmentation and green development performance are empirically investigated to examine their non-linear relationship using static panel, dynamic panel, and dynamic spatial panel models. The results reveal the following: (1) Green development performance is found to have a high degree of temporal and spatial path dependence, exhibiting spatial linkage between cities. (2) Market segmentation stemming from local government protection has a clear inverted U-shaped structure in relationship with the green development performance. (3) Our analysis suggests that the upgrading of industrial structures significantly enhances green development, while factor price distortion inhibits it. The relationship between market segmentation and industrial structure upgrading is also an inverted U-shape. (4) The analysis further reveals that market segmentation has an inverted U-shaped correlation with the green development performance in western, central, and eastern cities. However, the different rates of development of industrial structures within the three regions result in varying degrees of market segmentation according to inflection point values. Moreover, aligned with the theoretical hypothesis of “resource curse,” in resource-based cities (exclusively), market segmentation still affects the green development performance with a significant inverted U-shaped structure.

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Section: Literature Review and Research Hypothesesmentioning

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Market Segmentation and Green Development Performance: Evidence from Chinese Cities

Dong

Liang

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“…Very few studies examine bill-level variation for this policy field (e.g. Chupp 2011), and the ones that do so generally consider only a narrow range of bills passed at the state level throughout the United States (Clark andAllen 2004, Coley andHess 2012). Our goal of understanding what bill characteristics can gain support from legislators in both parties can have important implications for understanding the conditions under which environmental reforms occur, thereby contributing to environmental social theory and generating policy implications.…”

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Party differences and energy reform: fiscal conservatism in the California legislature

Hess

Coley

Quan

et al. 2014

Environmental Politics

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Research building on political economy and ecological modernisation theories has paid increasing attention to the conditions that affect the prospects for environmental reform. Much work focuses on variation among political units in support of a single type of energy policy, whereas we examine within-state variation in support of a wide range of energy reform policies. Applying multilevel analyses to the 2011-2012 legislative session in California, we identify bill characteristics associated with divisions between Republicans and Democrats. Expanding the size or scope of government (through spending, government commissions, and business regulations) reduces support for energy reform among Republicans, whereas promoting transparency and other 'good government' initiatives reduces support among Democrats. In contrast with the standard view that Republicans oppose almost all energy reforms proposed by Democrats, we identify bill characteristics that increase the likelihood of support from both parties, namely tax reductions and credits, including for bills that promote renewable energy.

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Ecological and sociopolitical assessment of congressional and presidential designation of federal protected areas

Creech

Williamson

2019

Ecological Applications

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Protected areas are one of the most effective means by which biodiversity is conserved, but are often criticized for either neglecting the importance of local communities or sacrificing conservation objectives for political expedience. In the United States, federal protected areas can be designated via a democratic legislation process or via executive action, which allows for comparison of the ecological and sociopolitical context of these top‐down and bottom‐up processes. We compared protected areas resulting from congressional designation vs. presidential designation with respect to their ecological context (using measures of biodiversity and climate refugial potential) and sociopolitical context (using measures of local support for conservation and reliance on natural resource‐based industries). We found minimal differences between these designation modes for both ecological and sociopolitical variables. These results suggest that presidentially designated protected areas tend to be no more burdensome to local communities and no less valuable for ecological conservation than more widely accepted federal protected areas such as national parks, and they provide new evidence to inform the current debate over national monuments.

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Environmental Constituent Interest, Green Electricity Policies, and Legislative Voting

Cited by 17 publications

References 26 publications

Market Segmentation and Green Development Performance: Evidence from Chinese Cities

Market Segmentation and Green Development Performance: Evidence from Chinese Cities

Party differences and energy reform: fiscal conservatism in the California legislature

Ecological and sociopolitical assessment of congressional and presidential designation of federal protected areas

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