Sustaining Abundance - Environmental Performance in Industrial Democracies

Klappentext The first comprehensive study evaluating the comparative performance of national environmental policies. Zusammenfassung This book represents the first comprehensive study evaluating the comparative performance of national environmental policies since the beginning of the modern environmental era. It lays out four major explanations of environmental performance and evaluates them using an advanced statistical analysis of data from seventeen wealthy countries. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction; 2. Measuring national environmental performance; 3. Economic development, geographic advantage, and environmental performance; 4. Public opinion, environmental mobilization, and environmental performance; 5. Pluralism, corporatism, and environmental performance; 6. Political institutions; 7. Checking the robustness of the results; 8. Conclusion.

Product details

• Authors: Lyle Scruggs, Lyle (University of Connecticut) Scruggs
• Assisted by: Robert H. Bates (Editor), Peter Lange (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 17.03.2003
• EAN: 9780521816724
• ISBN: 978-0-521-81672-4
• No. of pages: 270
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Comparati
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education