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Greening Up or Not? The Determinants Political Parties’ Environmental Concern: An Empirical Analysis Based on European Data (1970-2008)

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  • Michallet, Benjamin
  • Gaeta, Giuseppe Lucio
  • Facchini, François

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Why do parties offer environmental policies in their political programs? While a number of papers examine the determinants of citizens’ pro-environmental behaviour, we know little about the extent to which political parties adjust their platform towards environmentalism. We investigate this process through data provided by the Manifesto Project Dataset (CMP) for 20 European countries over the period 1970-2008. Following the literature on public concern towards environment, we examine economic, environmental and political determinants. Our findings provide evidence that political parties’ environmental concern is strongly correlated with their political ideology and with country-level economic conditions.

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  • Michallet, Benjamin & Gaeta, Giuseppe Lucio & Facchini, François, "undated". "Greening Up or Not? The Determinants Political Parties’ Environmental Concern: An Empirical Analysis Based on European Data (1970-2008)," Climate Change and Sustainable Development 202113, Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei (FEEM).
    • Handle: RePEc:ags:feemcl:202113
    DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.202113
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    1. D’Ecclesiis, Enrico A.R. & Levi, Eugenio & Patriarca, Fabrizio, 2025. "Exploring the multifaceted relationship between environmental attitudes and political voting," Ecological Economics, Elsevier, vol. 230(C).
    2. Apostoaie Constantin-Marius, 2016. "Relevant Determinants of the Political Parties’ Environmental Preference," Scientific Annals of Economics and Business, Sciendo, vol. 63(s1), pages 51-69, December.
    3. Constantin-Marius APOSTOAIE, 2017. "Relevant Determinants Of The Political Parties’ Environmental Preference," Scientific Annals of Economics and Business (continues Analele Stiintifice), Alexandru Ioan Cuza University, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, vol. 63(3), pages 51-69, January.
    4. Giuseppe Lucio Gaeta & Stefano Ghinoi & Francesco Silvestri, 2017. "Municipal performance in waste recycling: an empirical analysis based on data from the Lombardy region (Italy)," Letters in Spatial and Resource Sciences, Springer, vol. 10(3), pages 337-352, October.

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