Does Environmental party representation matter for investments in green infrastructure? : a regression discontinuity approach
For the 2014 election the Environmental Party, which is a small single issue party, revealed an election manifesto for the forthcoming electoral period, where they promised to establish more charging spots for electric vehicles and to make electric vehicles more accessible. The aim of the study is t...
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| author | Jörnling, Angelica |
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| description | For the 2014 election the Environmental Party, which is a small single issue party, revealed an election manifesto for the forthcoming electoral period, where they promised to establish more charging spots for electric vehicles and to make electric vehicles more accessible. The aim of the study is to examine to what extent investments in green infrastructure are affected by Environmental Party representation on a local level. A sharp regression discontinuity design is applied where the governing coalition in local councils’ changes discontinuously at 50% of the seat shares, to estimate the causal effect of Environmental Party representation on investments in green infrastructure. The results show that there is a positive causal effect of Environmental Party representation on investments in green infrastructure. However, one key assumption of the regression discontinuity design is probably violated, indicating that the governing coalitions are not as good as randomly assigned. Thus, the causal interpretation of the results must be treated cautiously. Moreover, in order to distinguish if it is Environmental Party representation that drives investments in green infrastructure on a local level, other factors such as bargaining power should be taken into account. |
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| institution | Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences |
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| publishDate | 2019 |
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| spelling | RepoSLU150502020-06-04T12:17:30Z Does Environmental party representation matter for investments in green infrastructure? : a regression discontinuity approach Jörnling, Angelica environmental party green infrastructure sharp regression discontinuity design Sweden For the 2014 election the Environmental Party, which is a small single issue party, revealed an election manifesto for the forthcoming electoral period, where they promised to establish more charging spots for electric vehicles and to make electric vehicles more accessible. The aim of the study is to examine to what extent investments in green infrastructure are affected by Environmental Party representation on a local level. A sharp regression discontinuity design is applied where the governing coalition in local councils’ changes discontinuously at 50% of the seat shares, to estimate the causal effect of Environmental Party representation on investments in green infrastructure. The results show that there is a positive causal effect of Environmental Party representation on investments in green infrastructure. However, one key assumption of the regression discontinuity design is probably violated, indicating that the governing coalitions are not as good as randomly assigned. Thus, the causal interpretation of the results must be treated cautiously. Moreover, in order to distinguish if it is Environmental Party representation that drives investments in green infrastructure on a local level, other factors such as bargaining power should be taken into account. Inför valet 2014 lanserade Miljöpartiet ett valmanifest för den kommande mandatperioden där de lovade att etablera fler laddpunkter för elbilar och att öka tillgängligheten av elbilar i Sverige. Uppsatsen syftar till att undersöka i vilken utsträckning investeringar i grön infrastruktur påverkas av om Miljöpartiet ingår i den styrande koalitionen i Sveriges kommuner. I studien används en metod kallad sharp regression discontinuity design för att estimera den kausala effekten av att miljöpartiet ingår i den styrande koalitionen på investeringar i grön infrastruktur, där makten i kommunfullmäktige ändras diskontinuerligt vid 50 % av andelen platser. Resultaten visar att det sannolikt finns en positiv kausal effekt av att Miljöpartiet ingår i den styrande koalitionen på investeringar i grön infrastruktur, närmare bestämt investeringar i laddpunkter. Resultaten bör emellertid tolkas med viss försiktighet på grund av att ett av metodens nyckelantaganden, att de styrande koalitionerna ska vara slumpmässiga, inte är uppfyllt. För att kunna avgöra om Miljöpartiets representation i styrande koalitioner driver investeringar i grön infrastruktur är det nödvändigt att även inkludera andra faktorer, såsom vilken förhandlingskraft Miljöpartiet har inom koalitionen. SLU/Dept. of Economics 2019 H3 eng swe https://stud.epsilon.slu.se/15050/ |
| spellingShingle | environmental party green infrastructure sharp regression discontinuity design Sweden Jörnling, Angelica Does Environmental party representation matter for investments in green infrastructure? : a regression discontinuity approach |
| title | Does Environmental party representation matter for investments in green infrastructure? : a regression discontinuity approach |
| title_full | Does Environmental party representation matter for investments in green infrastructure? : a regression discontinuity approach |
| title_fullStr | Does Environmental party representation matter for investments in green infrastructure? : a regression discontinuity approach |
| title_full_unstemmed | Does Environmental party representation matter for investments in green infrastructure? : a regression discontinuity approach |
| title_short | Does Environmental party representation matter for investments in green infrastructure? : a regression discontinuity approach |
| title_sort | does environmental party representation matter for investments in green infrastructure? : a regression discontinuity approach |
| topic | environmental party green infrastructure sharp regression discontinuity design Sweden |