Does an early start help or hurt? Statehood, institutions and modern climate change policies

• Main Authors: Ang, James B., Fredriksson, Per G.
• Other Authors: School of Social Sciences
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2022
• Subjects: Social sciences::Economic theory; Climate Change Policy; Environment
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/159828
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

This paper first hypothesizes that countries that have accumulated more statehood experience over the last two millennia tend to have more stringent climate change policies. A second hypothesis is that there are also indirect effects via the rule of law, democracy, corruption, political instability,...