Voting on the environment: Price or ideology? Evidence from Swiss referendums

Ecological Economics

Volumn 67, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 430-440

  Bornstein, Nicholas ^a   Lanz, Bruno ^b  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

^b Economics for the Environment Consulting (eftec) Ltd   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Direct democracy; Environmental preferences; Market based instruments

Indexed keywords

COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DEMOCRACY; ECONOMIC INSTRUMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY; FOSSIL FUEL; IDEOLOGY; PREFERENCE BEHAVIOR; PUBLIC GOODS; REFERENDUM; TAX SYSTEM; VOTING BEHAVIOR; WILLINGNESS TO PAY;

CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; SWITZERLAND;

EID: 50849135908     PISSN: 09218009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2007.12.026     Document Type: Article

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