Browsing by Author "Povitkina, Marina"
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Are Carbon Dioxide Emissions Decoupled from GDP Growth in Well-functioning Democracies?
Lægreid, Ole Martin; Povitkina, Marina (2017)Empirical studies of the relationship between GDP per capita and country-level CO2 emissions tend to focus on the direct effect of per capita GDP growth, rarely taking political institutions into consideration. This paper ... -
Democracy, Bureaucratic Capacity and Environmental Quality
Povitkina, Marina (2015)This paper explores the link between democracy, bureaucratic capacity and environmental quality. While many previous empirical studies traditionally have focused on either the democracy or bureaucratic capacity ... -
Democracy, Quality of Government, and Public Goods Provision: The Case of Water Management
Povitkina, Marina; Bolkvadze, Ketevan (2018)A large strand of research has argued that democracy with its broad representation and electoral accountability is beneficial for the provision of public goods to the general population. However, there is a large variation ... -
Environmental commitments in different types of democracies: The role of liberal, social-liberal, and deliberative politics
Povitkina, Marina; Jagers, Sverker C. (2021-03)Ever since the recognition of ongoing, human-induced, large-scale environmental degradation, from the early 1960s onwards, the scholarly community has looked at democracy with mixed feelings. Some assert, quite openly, ... -
Environmental NGOs in Emerging Democracies: Obstacles to Effective Action
Bolkvadze, Ketevan; Carlitz, Ruth; Povitkina, Marina (2024-04)Environmental non-governmental organizations (ENGOs) play an important role in environmental governance. However, ENGO activity does not always lead to favorable outcomes. This paper highlights the ways in which neoliberal ... -
Environmental protection in authoritarian regimes: Investigating the role of pluralism.
Carlitz, Ruth; Povitkina, Marina (2020-06)When and how do authoritarian states secure environmental protection? Answering thisquestion is critical given that over half of the world’s population currently live in suchregimes. Furthermore, the ... -
“Gimme Shelter”: The Role of Democracy and Institutional Quality in Disaster Preparedness
Ahlbom, Tove; Povitkina, Marina (2016)Natural disasters cause suffering for millions of people around the globe every year and as climate change unfolds the likelihood of natural catastrophes is increasing. While weather shocks, such as earthquakes, tornadoes, ... -
How corruption shapes the relationship between democracy and electrification
Boräng, Frida; Jagers, Sverker; Povitkina, Marina (2016-11)One of the central questions in research on the drivers behind public good provision is how political regimes and institutions impact the provision of public goods. Previous research within this field has shown that ... -
Institutional Quality Causes Social Trust: Evidence from Survey and Experimental Data on Trusting Under the Shadow of Doubt
Martinangeli, Andrea F.M.; Povitkina, Marina; Jagers, Sverker C.; Rothstein, Bo (2020-12)Social trust is a crucial ingredient for successful collective action. What causes social trust to develop, however, remains poorly understood. The quality of political institutions has been proposed as a candidate driver ... -
Necessary but not Sustainable? The Limits of Democracy in Achieving Environmental Sustainability
Povitkina, Marina (2018-05-02)The world today faces a number of environmental problems that are both severe and urgent. Finding effective solutions is one of the top priorities for the international community, with at least half of the United Nations ... -
Paradise Islands? Island States and the Provision of Environmental Goods
Jagers, Sverker C.; Povitkina, Marina; Sjöstedt, Martin; Sundström, Aksel (2013-11)Island states have been shown to trump continental states on collective action-related outcomes, such as democracy and institutional quality. The argument tested in this article contends that the same logic might apply to ... -
Political Headwind: How wind power development influences political trust
Ulla, Erik; Povitkina, Marina (2023-12)Most policy projects aimed at environmental protection are conflictual in their nature and have supporters and opponents. If a policy is implemented without taking into consideration the opinions of policy opponents, there ... -
Vulnerability of Small Island Development States. Does good governance help?
Sjöstedt, Martin; Povitkina, Marina (2015)Small island states have in recent decades been identified as particularly vulnerable to natural disasters and climate change. Violent winds, floods, and draughts have had severe consequences for millions of people and ...