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Environmental Politics in Authoritarian Regimes: Waste Management in the Russian Regions

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  • Olga Masyutina
  • Ekaterina Paustyan
  • Grigory Yakovlev

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Russian regions display a significant variation in terms of waste management efforts. This is puzzling considering the importance of waste management for all regional governments and the urgency of the problem for the Russian public as reflected in opinion polls. We study whether more authoritarian regional governments in Russia are better able to solve the problem of waste management. Using a regional panel data set for the period of 2012-2019, we find that our measure of the degree of authoritarianism - the share of votes for the United Russia party in parliamentary elections - has a strong positive effect on the share of recycled waste in the Russian regions. This result indicates that more authoritarian regions tend to recycle more household waste than less authoritarian regions. This finding is consistent with the theory of environmental authoritarianism that suggests that authoritarian governments are better able to tackle environmental challenges.

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  • Olga Masyutina & Ekaterina Paustyan & Grigory Yakovlev, 2022. "Environmental Politics in Authoritarian Regimes: Waste Management in the Russian Regions," Bremen Papers on Economics & Innovation 2206, University of Bremen, Faculty of Business Studies and Economics.
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    DOI: https://doi.org/10.26092/elib/1534
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    Keywords

    Environmental authoritarianism; waste recycling; Russia; subnational politics;
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    JEL classification:

    • Q53 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Environmental Economics - - - Air Pollution; Water Pollution; Noise; Hazardous Waste; Solid Waste; Recycling
    • Q58 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Environmental Economics - - - Environmental Economics: Government Policy
    • R58 - Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics - - Regional Government Analysis - - - Regional Development Planning and Policy

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