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Does activism matter? The case of environmental policy in the US states

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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the role of activism in determining the identity of
the “green” median voter and the influence of the green voter on environmental regulatory stringency
in the US states.
Design/methodology/approach – Regulatory stringency is measured using output weighted
abatement spending and an industry concentration adjusted index of state environmental compliance
costs for the period 1989-1994. Activism measures include environmental initiatives, median support for
pollution standards and voter ideology. Fixed-effects panel methodology is used in empirical estimation.
Findings – The authors find that activism increases stringency in regulating overall as well as
media-specific pollution. The results particularly highlight the nuances of different approaches to
activism and their varied impact across pollution media.
Research limitations/implications – A drawback of the empirical estimation is the lack of
continuous historical abatement spending data. A longer panel with alternative stringency measure(s)
would add explanatory power to activism, especially since some activismmeasures capture slow-changing
institutional factors.
Social implications – The study identifies the conditions under which activism can have the most
impact on a society’s environmental outcomes since pollution varies in damages, hence abatement
costs, across pollution media.
Originality/value – The paper adds to the existing literature by incorporating three alternative
measures of environmental activism to systematically investigate its impact on environmental
stringency within a fixed-effects regression design. It also promotes a deeper understanding of the
efficacy of the activism process by deconstructing policy stringency across pollution media to show
that activism and its impacts are more nuanced than previously studied.

Keywords Social capital, Institutions and institutional analysis, Environmental economics,Public goods

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Judul Seri

International Journal of Social Economics

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: Emerald Group., 2014

Deskripsi Fisik

International Journal of Social Economics Vol. 41 No. 10, 2014 pp. 923-943

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English

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