Statehood experience, legal traditions, and climate change policies

• Main Authors: Ang, James Bengjiunn, Fredriksson, Per G.
• Other Authors: School of Social Sciences
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2019
• Subjects: Dummy Variable; Social sciences::Economic theory; Climate Change Policies
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/82617; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/49079
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

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...