Environmental Performance in Democracies and Autocracies

Romy Escher is a research assistant at the Institute of Political Science of the University of Regensburg, Germany. Her research interests include Climate Policy, Comparative Policy Analysis, and empirical research methods.Melanie Walter-Rogg is Professor of Political Science and Methodology at the University of Regensburg, Germany. She has co-edited The Political Ecology of the Metropolis (2013) and authored a number of articles and book chapters on Public Policy Analysis, Metropolitan Governance, Urban Democracy as well as Political Culture and Political Behaviour.

• Chapter 1 – Introduction.- Chapter 2 – Disentangling the effect of the regime type on environmental performance.- Chapter 3 – Democracy qualities and environmental performance in democracies.- Chapter 4 – Democracy qualities and environmental performance in autocracies.- Chapter 5 – Democracy qualities, political corruption and environmental performance.- Chapter 6 – Summary, conclusion and policy implications.