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Populism and Environmental Performance

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  • Tobias Böhmelt

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This article examines the impact of populism on environmental politics, focusing on countries’ outcome-level performance. I develop the argument that populist leadership likely undermines environmental quality. First, populist leaders tend to reject and refrain from implementing “green” policies, as these are usually promoted by “corrupt elites.” Second, populism erodes democratic institutions, thus offsetting a series of mechanisms that are related to better environmental outcomes. Empirically, I combine data from the Global Populism Database covering sixty-six countries and more than two hundred executive leaders with information on environmental performance at the outcome level. The findings suggest that populist leadership is strongly linked to

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  • Tobias Böhmelt, 2021. "Populism and Environmental Performance," Global Environmental Politics, MIT Press, vol. 21(3), pages 97-123, Summer.
    • Handle: RePEc:tpr:glenvp:v:21:y:2021:i:3:p:97-123
    DOI: 10.1162/glep_a_00606
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