State Capacity and the Environmental Investment Gap in Authoritarian States

Comparative Political Studies

Volumn 47, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 309-343

  Ward, Hugh ^a   Cao, Xun ^b   Mukherjee, Bumba ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX   (United Kingdom)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

authoritarian states; environment; environmental investment gap; pollution; state capacity

Indexed keywords

EID: 84893594773     PISSN: 00104140     EISSN: 15523829     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0010414013509569     Document Type: Article

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