The Sustainable Lightness of Democracy? The Effects of Democratic Quality on Environmental Performance

Authors

  • Diego Freitas Rodrigues Centro Universitário Tiradentes (UNIT)
  • José Alexandre da Silva Júnior Instituto de Ciências Sociais, Universidade Federal de Alagoas (UFAL)
  • Denisson Silva Instituto de Ciências Sociais, Universidade Federal de Alagoas (UFAL)
  • Tainá Teixeira Cavalcante Lima Centro Universitário Tiradentes (UNIT)

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5380/dma.v33i0.36875

Keywords:

democracy, political regimes, environmental performance, Environmental Performance Index, Democracy Index

Abstract

Democratic regimes have better environmental performance? Our hypothesis is that the level of democracy of regimes has a positive and significant effect on environmental performance. To test it, we used descriptive statistics, analysis of variance and analysis of simple and multiple linear regression. The results suggest that: 1) the index of democracy explains about 45% of the variance of environmental performance index of countries and 2) democracies have higher average environmental performance, 3) the control variables do not override the effect of democracy index on environmental performance.

Author Biographies

Diego Freitas Rodrigues, Centro Universitário Tiradentes (UNIT)

Centro Universitário Tiradentes (UNIT)

José Alexandre da Silva Júnior, Instituto de Ciências Sociais, Universidade Federal de Alagoas (UFAL)

Instituto de Ciências Sociais, Universidade Federal de Alagoas (UFAL)

Denisson Silva, Instituto de Ciências Sociais, Universidade Federal de Alagoas (UFAL)

Instituto de Ciências Sociais, Universidade Federal de Alagoas (UFAL)

Tainá Teixeira Cavalcante Lima, Centro Universitário Tiradentes (UNIT)

Centro Universitário Tiradentes (UNIT)

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Published

2015-04-27

How to Cite

Rodrigues, D. F., da Silva Júnior, J. A., Silva, D., & Lima, T. T. C. (2015). The Sustainable Lightness of Democracy? The Effects of Democratic Quality on Environmental Performance. Desenvolvimento E Meio Ambiente, 33. https://doi.org/10.5380/dma.v33i0.36875

Issue

Vol. 33 (2015)

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