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  4. Environmental Politics in Authoritarian Regimes: Waste Management in the Russian Regions
 
Zitierlink DOI
10.26092/elib/1534

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

Veröffentlichungsdatum
2022-05-10
Autoren
Masyutina, Olga  
Paustyan, Ekaterina  
Yakovlev, Grigory  
Zusammenfassung
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.
Schlagwörter
environmental authoritarianism

; 

waste recycling

; 

Russia

; 

subnational politics
Institution
Universität Bremen  
Fachbereich
Fachbereich 07: Wirtschaftswissenschaft (FB 07)  
Institute
Institute for Economic Research and Policy (IERP)  
Dokumenttyp
Bericht, Report
Zeitschrift/Sammelwerk
Bremen Papers on Economics & Innovation  
Band
2206
Zweitveröffentlichung
Nein
Lizenz
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
Sprache
Englisch
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