Does the Conceptualization and Measurement of Democracy Quality Matter in Comparative Climate Policy Research?

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Autor(a) principal: Escher, Romy
Data de Publicação: 2018
Outros Autores: Walter-Rogg, Melanie
Tipo de documento: Artigo
Idioma: eng
Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
Texto Completo: https://doi.org/10.17645/pag.v6i1.1187
Resumo: Previous empirical research on democracy and global warming has mainly questioned whether democracy contributes to climate protection. However, there is no consensus in the theoretical literature on what institutional traits of democracy are crucial for climate policy. Thus, results based on indices that summarize multiple democracy quality dimensions could be misleading, as their effects could balance each other out or hide the relative importance of each institutional trait. This article examines whether the analysis of the effects of democracy quality dimensions, measured by separate indicators, contributes to a better understanding of cross-national variance in climate policy compared to the focus on the regime type difference, measured by democracy quality measures. Compared to earlier research, the results indicate that the positive effect of democracy on commitment to climate cooperation depends on the realization of political rights. We find little to support the claim that democracy quality dimensions matter for climate policy outcomes. The main implication of our findings is that it could be fruitful to use more disaggregated democracy measures for the analysis of substantive research questions.
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spelling Does the Conceptualization and Measurement of Democracy Quality Matter in Comparative Climate Policy Research?climate change policy; democracy; democracy quality; environmental policy; measures of democracyPrevious empirical research on democracy and global warming has mainly questioned whether democracy contributes to climate protection. However, there is no consensus in the theoretical literature on what institutional traits of democracy are crucial for climate policy. Thus, results based on indices that summarize multiple democracy quality dimensions could be misleading, as their effects could balance each other out or hide the relative importance of each institutional trait. This article examines whether the analysis of the effects of democracy quality dimensions, measured by separate indicators, contributes to a better understanding of cross-national variance in climate policy compared to the focus on the regime type difference, measured by democracy quality measures. Compared to earlier research, the results indicate that the positive effect of democracy on commitment to climate cooperation depends on the realization of political rights. We find little to support the claim that democracy quality dimensions matter for climate policy outcomes. The main implication of our findings is that it could be fruitful to use more disaggregated democracy measures for the analysis of substantive research questions.Cogitatio2018-03-19info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersioninfo:eu-repo/semantics/articleapplication/pdfhttps://doi.org/10.17645/pag.v6i1.1187oai:ojs.cogitatiopress.com:article/1187Politics and Governance; Vol 6, No 1 (2018): Why Choice Matters: Revisiting and Comparing Measures of Democracy; 117-1442183-2463reponame:Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)instname:Agência para a Sociedade do Conhecimento (UMIC) - FCT - Sociedade da Informaçãoinstacron:RCAAPenghttps://www.cogitatiopress.com/politicsandgovernance/article/view/1187https://doi.org/10.17645/pag.v6i1.1187https://www.cogitatiopress.com/politicsandgovernance/article/view/1187/1187https://www.cogitatiopress.com/politicsandgovernance/article/downloadSuppFile/1187/234https://www.cogitatiopress.com/politicsandgovernance/article/downloadSuppFile/1187/237https://www.cogitatiopress.com/politicsandgovernance/article/downloadSuppFile/1187/274Copyright (c) 2018 Romy Escher, Melanie Walter-Rogghttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessEscher, RomyWalter-Rogg, Melanie2022-12-22T15:16:46Zoai:ojs.cogitatiopress.com:article/1187Portal AgregadorONGhttps://www.rcaap.pt/oai/openaireopendoar:71602024-03-19T16:22:27.594940Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos) - Agência para a Sociedade do Conhecimento (UMIC) - FCT - Sociedade da Informaçãofalse
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title Does the Conceptualization and Measurement of Democracy Quality Matter in Comparative Climate Policy Research?
spellingShingle Does the Conceptualization and Measurement of Democracy Quality Matter in Comparative Climate Policy Research?
Escher, Romy
climate change policy; democracy; democracy quality; environmental policy; measures of democracy
title_short Does the Conceptualization and Measurement of Democracy Quality Matter in Comparative Climate Policy Research?
title_full Does the Conceptualization and Measurement of Democracy Quality Matter in Comparative Climate Policy Research?
title_fullStr Does the Conceptualization and Measurement of Democracy Quality Matter in Comparative Climate Policy Research?
title_full_unstemmed Does the Conceptualization and Measurement of Democracy Quality Matter in Comparative Climate Policy Research?
title_sort Does the Conceptualization and Measurement of Democracy Quality Matter in Comparative Climate Policy Research?
author Escher, Romy
author_facet Escher, Romy
Walter-Rogg, Melanie
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author2 Walter-Rogg, Melanie
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Walter-Rogg, Melanie
dc.subject.por.fl_str_mv climate change policy; democracy; democracy quality; environmental policy; measures of democracy
topic climate change policy; democracy; democracy quality; environmental policy; measures of democracy
description Previous empirical research on democracy and global warming has mainly questioned whether democracy contributes to climate protection. However, there is no consensus in the theoretical literature on what institutional traits of democracy are crucial for climate policy. Thus, results based on indices that summarize multiple democracy quality dimensions could be misleading, as their effects could balance each other out or hide the relative importance of each institutional trait. This article examines whether the analysis of the effects of democracy quality dimensions, measured by separate indicators, contributes to a better understanding of cross-national variance in climate policy compared to the focus on the regime type difference, measured by democracy quality measures. Compared to earlier research, the results indicate that the positive effect of democracy on commitment to climate cooperation depends on the realization of political rights. We find little to support the claim that democracy quality dimensions matter for climate policy outcomes. The main implication of our findings is that it could be fruitful to use more disaggregated democracy measures for the analysis of substantive research questions.
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