Replication data for: Environmental pollution and authoritarian politics



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Title: Replication data for: Environmental pollution and authoritarian politics
Date: 28 July 2022
Creator: Horz, Carlo ; Marbach, Moritz ORCID: 0000-0002-7101-2821 ; Steinert, Christoph ORCID: 0000-0003-1760-3214
Divisions: Außerfakultäre Einrichtungen > Graduate School of Economic and Social Sciences- CDSS (Social Sciences)
School of Social Sciences > Political Scinece, International Relations (Carey 2010-)
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Classification:		 320 Political science
333.7 Natural resources, energy and environment
Abstract: Authoritarian rulers fend off revolutions by stimulating the economy. However, expanding the economy can also increase environmental pollution. If citizens value clean air and water, worsening pollution has the potential to galvanize large segments of the society against the regime---which increases the risk of a revolution. While the literature has documented how concerns over the environment upend politics in democracies, we know relatively little about the effects of these concerns in authoritarian regimes. We analyze environmental pollution as an overlooked threat to authoritarian rulers. Using unique data from Communist East Germany and exploiting variation in thermal inversions to instrument for pollution levels, we find that pollution causes both individual and collective expressions of regime dissatisfaction. Our findings suggest that rulers face a trade-off between growing the economy and worsening pollution. (2022-04-26) (English)
External Identifier for Data: https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/KHUT6X
URL: https://madata.bib.uni-mannheim.de/807/
Access (Controlled): Only Metadata
License (Controlled): Creative Commons: CC0 | Universal 1.0 (recommended)
Related Publication(s) in MADOC: Horz, Carlo M. und Marbach, Moritz und Steinert, Christoph Valentin (2023), Environmental pollution and authoritarian politics

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