Air pollution and business political influence in fifteen OECD countries

Environment and Planning C: Government and Policy

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 362-380

  Bernhagen, Patrick ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Air pollution; Asymmetric information; Business organization; Business political action; Corporatism; Environmental politics; Structural power

Indexed keywords

AIR QUALITY; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; ENVIRONMENTAL POLITICS; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; OECD; POLITICAL POWER;

EID: 84859461317     PISSN: 0263774X     EISSN: 14723425     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1068/c11179b     Document Type: Article

References (83)

1. Achen C, 2000, "Why lagged dependent variables can suppress the explanatory power of other independent variables", presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Political Methodology, UCLA, Los Angeles, http://polmeth.wustl.edu/mediaDetail.php?docId=175
2. Aiken L S, West S G, 1991 Multiple Regression: Testing and Interpreting Interactions (Sage, Thousand Oaks, CA)
3. Ainsworth S, 1993, "Regulating lobbyists and interest group influence" Journal of Politics 55 41-56
4. Antweiler W, Copeland B R, Taylor M S, 2001, "Is free trade good for the environment?"American Economic Review 91 877-908
5. Austen-Smith D, 1993, "Information and influence: lobbying for agendas and votes" American Journal of Political Science 37 799-833
6. Bauchmüller M, Bilger O, 2009, "Krise macht Deutschland klimafreundlicher" Süddeutsche Zeitung 23 December, http://www.sueddeutsche.de/wissen/energieverbrauch-krise-macht-deutschland-klimafreundlicher-1.53061
7. Baumgartner F R, 2006,"Punctuated equilibrium theory and environmental policy", in Punctuated Equilibriumand the Dynamics ofUSEnvironmental Policy Ed. RRepetto (YaleUniversity Press, New Haven, CT) pp 24-46
8. Baumgartner F R, Jones B D, 1993 Agendas and Instability in American Politics (University of Chicago Press, Chicago, IL)
9. Beck N, Katz J N, 2009, "Modeling dynamics in time-series-cross-section political economy data", WP 1304, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA
10. Berman E, Bui L T M, 2001, "Environmental regulation and productivity: evidence from oil refineries" Review of Economics and Statistics 83 498-510
11. Bernauer T, Koubi V, 2009, "Effects of political institutions on air quality" Ecological Economics 68 1355-1365
12. Bischoff I, 2003, "Determinants of the increase in the number of interest groups inWestern democracies: theoretical considerations and evidence from 21 OECD countries" Public Choice 114 197-218
13. Block F, 1977, "The rating class does not rule" Socialist Revolution 33 6-28
14. Broscheid A, 2006, "Public choice models of business lobbying: distributional and informational accounts", in Business and Government: Methods and Practice Eds D Coen, W Grant (Barbara Budrich Publishers, Opladen) pp 79-108
15. Cao X, Prakash A, 2010, "Trade competition and domestic pollution: a panel study, 1980-2003" International Organization 64 481-503
16. Christiansen G B, Haveman R H, 1981, "The contribution of environmental regulations to the slowdown in productivity growth" Journal of Environmental Economics and Management 8 381-390
17. Cole M A, 2004, "Trade, the pollution haven hypothesis and the environmental Kuznets curve: examining the linkages" Ecological Economics 48 71-81
18. Crouch C, 1993 Industrial Relations and European State Traditions (Oxford University Press, Oxford)
19. Curry A, 2007, "The world from Berlin: automakers cry foul over new CO2 rules" Spiegel Online International 20 December, http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,524623,00.html
20. Densham A, Czebiniak R, Kessler D, Skar R, 2009, "Carbon scam: Noel Kempff Climate Action Project and the push for sub-national forest offsets", Greenpeace International, Amsterdam, http://www.greenpeace.org/usa/Global/usa/report/2010/1/carbon-scam-noel-kempff-clima.pdf
21. DeSombre E R, 2001, "The experience of the Montreal Protocol: particularly remarkable and remarkably particular" UCLA Journal of Environmental Law and Policy 19 49-81
22. Downs A, 1957 An Economic Theory of Democracy (Harper, New York)
23. Drezner DW, 2001, "Globalization and policy convergence" International Studies Review 3 53-78
24. Dryzek J, 1995, "Political and ecological communication" Environmental Politics 4 13-30
25. Ebbinghaus B, Visser J (Eds), 2000 The Societies of Europe: Trade Unions in Western Europe since 1945 (Macmillan, London)
26. EIA, 2001 International Energy Outlook 2001Energy Information Administration, Washington, DC
27. 2 job threat" The Guardian 1 February, http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2005/feb/01/environment.climatechange
28. EMEP, 2002, "Emission data", United Nations Economic Commission for Europe, Geneva, http://www.emep.int
29. Galbraith J K, 1954, "Countervailing power" American Economic Review 44 1-6
30. Gill S, 1995, "Globalization, market civilization and disciplinary neoliberalism" Millennium 24 399-423
31. Goldenberg S, 2010, "Tea Party climate change deniers funded by BP and other major polluters" The Guardian 25 October, http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/oct/24/tea-party-climate-change-deniers
32. Golub J, 1998, "Global competition and EU environmental policy: introduction and overview", in Global Competition and EU Environmental Policy Ed. J Golub (Routledge, London) pp 1-33
33. Grossman G M, Krueger A B, 1995, "Economic growth as the environment" Quarterly Journal of Economics 110 353-377
34. Hall PA, Soskice D, 2001,"An introduction to varieties of capitalism", in Varieties of Capitalism: The Institutional Foundations of Comparative Advantage Eds PA Hall, D Soskice (Oxford University Press, Oxford) pp 1-68
35. Hamilton J D, 1994 Time Series Analysis (Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ)
36. Heston A, Summers R, Aten B, 2002, "PennWorld Table Version 6.1", Center for International Comparisons of Production, Income and Prices, University of Pennsylvania, http://pwt.econ.upenn.edu/
37. International Monetary Fund, 2011, "International financial statistics database", http://elibrary-data.imf.org/
38. Jaffe A, Peterson S, Portney P, Stavins R, 1995, "Environmental regulation and competitiveness of US manufacturing" Journal of Economic Literature 33 132-163
39. Jahn D, 1998, "Environmental performance and policy regimes: explaining variations in 18 OECD countries" Policy Sciences 31 107-131
40. Keohane N O, Revesz R L, Stavins R N, 1998, "The choice of regulatory instruments in environmental policy" Harvard Environmental Law Review 22 313-367
41. Kitschelt H,1990,"New social movements and the decline of party organization", in Challenging the Political Order: New Social and Political Movements in Western Democracies Eds R J Dalton, M Kuechler (Polity Press, Cambridge) pp 179-208
42. Kolk A, Pinkse J, 2007, "Multinationals' political activities on climate change" Business and Society 46 201-228
43. Labatt S, Maclaren V W, 1998, "Voluntary corporate environmental initiatives: a typology and preliminary investigation" Environment and Planning C: Government and Policy 16 191-209
44. Lamla MJ, 2009,"Long-run determinants of pollution: a robustness analysis" Ecological Economics 69 135-144
45. Leonard H J, 1988 Pollution and the Struggle for a World Product (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge)
46. Levy D L, 2005, "Business and the evolution of climate regimes: the dynamics of corporate strategies", in The Business of Global Environmental Governance Eds D L Levy, P J Newell (MIT Press, Cambridge, MA) pp 73-104
47. Lijphart A, 1999 Patterns of Democracy: Government Forms and Performance in Thirty-six Countries (Yale University Press, New Haven, CT)
48. Lindblom C E, 1977 Politics and Markets: The World's Political-Economic Systems (Basic Books, New York)
49. Lohmann S, 1993, "A signaling model of informative and manipulative political action" American Political Science Review 87 319-333
50. Lopez R, 2003, "The policy roots of socioeconomic stagnation and environmental implosion: Latin America 1950-2000" World Development 31 259-280
51. Lovei M, 1996, "Phasing out lead from gasoline: world-wide experience and policy implications", World Bank Environment Department Papers, Washington, DC
52. McCormick J, 2001 Environmental Policy in the European Union (Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, Hants)
53. Mani M, Wheeler D, 1998,"In search of pollution havens?" Journal of Environment and Development 7 215-247
54. Milner H, 1988 Resisting Protectionism: Global Industries and the Politics of International Trade (Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ)
55. Mitchell N J, 1997 The Conspicuous Corporation: Business, Public Policy, and Representative Democracy (University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor, MI)
56. Murphy D, 2004 The Structure of Regulatory Competition: Corporations and Public Policies in a Global Economy (Oxford University Press, Oxford)
57. National Association of Manufacturers, 2011, "ERP-01 energy and natural resources", http://www.nam.org/Issues/Official-Policy-Positions/Energy-and-Resources-Policy/Energy-and-Natural-Resources.aspx
58. Neumayer E, 2003, "Are left-wing party strength and corporatism good for the environment? Evidence from panel analysis of air pollution in OECD countries" Ecological Economics 45 203-220
59. Offe C, 1981, "The attribution of public statuses to interest groups: some observations on the West German case", in Organizing Interest in Western Europe Ed. S Bozer (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge) pp 123-158
60. Olson M, 1965 The Logic of Collective Action: Public Goods and the Theory of Groups (Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA)
61. Porter ME, van der Linde C, 1995,"Toward a new conception of the environmental-competitiveness relationship" Journal of Economic Perspectives 9 97-118
62. Prakash A, Potoski M, 2007, "Investing up: FDI and the cross-national diffusion of ISO 14001" International Studies Quarterly 51 723-744
63. Przeworski A, Wallerstein M, 1988, "Structural dependence of the state on capital" American Political Science Review 82 11-29
64. Quinn D P, Shapiro R Y, 1991, "Business political power: the case of taxation" American Political Science Review 85 851-874
65. Reilly W K, 2003, "The EPA's cost underruns" Washington Post 14 October, page A23
66. REN21, 2010 Renewables 2010 Global Status Report (REN21 Secretariat, Paris)
67. Rodrik D, 1997 Has Globalization Gone Too Far? (Institute for International Economics, Washington, DC)
68. Rowlands I H, 2000, "Beauty and the beast? BP's and Exxon's positions on global climate change" Environment and Planning C: Government and Policy 18 339-354
69. Schlamp H-J, Schwägerl C, Verbeet M, 2008, "Germany versus the EU: Merkel caught between industry and the climate" Spiegel Online International January 22, http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/0,1518,530162,00.html
70. Schlozman K L, Tierney J T, 1986 Organized Interests and American Democracy (Harper and Row, New York)
71. Schmitter, P C, Streeck W, 1981, "The organization of business interests", DP IIM/LMP 81-13, Social Science Research Center (WZB), Berlin
72. Scruggs L A, 1999,"Institutions and environmental performance in seventeen Western democracies" British Journal of Political Science 29 1-31
73. Siaroff A, 1999, "Corporatism in 24 industrial democracies: meaning and measurement" European Journal of Political Research 36 175-205
74. Smith M A, 1999, "Public opinion, elections, and representation within a market economy: does the structural power of business undermine popular sovereignty?" American Journal of Political Science 43 842-863
75. Smith MA, 2000 American Business and Political Power: Public Opinion, Elections, and Democracy (University of Chicago Press, Chicago, IL)
76. Spiegel Online International 2008, "Angry automakers: home of BMW battles EU emissions plan", 14 January, http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/0,1518,druck-528505,00.html
77. Swank D, 2002, "Political strength of political parties by ideological group in capitalist democracies 21-nation pooled time-series data set", http://www.marquette.edu/polisci/Swank.htm
78. Traxler F, 2010, "The long-term development of organized business and its implications for corporatism: a cross-national comparison of membership, activities and governing capacities of business interest associations" European Journal of Political Research 49 151-173
79. Unruh G C, 2000, "Understanding carbon lock-in" Energy Policy 28 817-830
80. Vidal J, 2005, "Business as usual" The Guardian 17 August, http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2005/aug/17/guardiansocietysuppement6
81. Vogel D, 1997 Trading Up: Consumer and Environmental Regulation in a Global Economy (Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA)
82. Vogel D, 2008, "Private global business regulation" Annual Review of Political Science 11 261-282
83. Wettestad J, 2009,"EUenergy-intensive industries and emission trading: losers becoming winners?" Environmental Policy and Governance 19 309-320