Statehood experience, legal traditions, and climate change policies
This study investigates how the implementation of modern climate change policies is related to former colonies' length of state history and their legal heritage. We argue that countries with longer statehood experience around the time of colonization were better equipped to implement the legal...
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sg-ntu-dr.10356-826172020-03-07T13:00:26Z Statehood experience, legal traditions, and climate change policies Ang, James Bengjiunn Fredriksson, Per G. School of Social Sciences Dummy Variable Social sciences::Economic theory Climate Change Policies This study investigates how the implementation of modern climate change policies is related to former colonies' length of state history and their legal heritage. We argue that countries with longer statehood experience around the time of colonization were better equipped to implement the legal philosophies transplanted by their colonial powers. Therefore, the implications of receiving British common law versus French civil law should be particularly important in countries with a greater accumulated history of statehood. Using a cross-section of up to 78 former colonies, our results provide support for this hypothesis. In particular, our estimates demonstrate that common law countries have weaker modern climate change policies than civil law countries and the difference is inflated by a longer statehood experience, measured by the length of state history from 1 to 1800 AD. Legal origin has no effect in areas which, by the time of colonization, had no statehood experience. Finally, we report similar results for the pattern of labor market regulations. MOE (Min. of Education, S’pore) 2019-07-02T06:54:08Z 2019-12-06T14:59:03Z 2019-07-02T06:54:08Z 2019-12-06T14:59:03Z 2017 Journal Article Ang, J. B., & Fredriksson, P. G. (2017). Statehood experience, legal traditions, and climate change policies. Economic Inquiry, 55(3), 1511-1537. doi:10.1111/ecin.12441 0095-2583 https://hdl.handle.net/10356/82617 http://hdl.handle.net/10220/49079 10.1111/ecin.12441 en Economic Inquiry © 2017 Western Economic Association International. All rights reserved. |
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This study investigates how the implementation of modern climate change policies is related to former colonies' length of state history and their legal heritage. We argue that countries with longer statehood experience around the time of colonization were better equipped to implement the legal philosophies transplanted by their colonial powers. Therefore, the implications of receiving British common law versus French civil law should be particularly important in countries with a greater accumulated history of statehood. Using a cross-section of up to 78 former colonies, our results provide support for this hypothesis. In particular, our estimates demonstrate that common law countries have weaker modern climate change policies than civil law countries and the difference is inflated by a longer statehood experience, measured by the length of state history from 1 to 1800 AD. Legal origin has no effect in areas which, by the time of colonization, had no statehood experience. Finally, we report similar results for the pattern of labor market regulations. |
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