Government political ideology and green innovation: evidence from OECD countries

IF 4 3区经济学 Q1 ECONOMICS Economic Change and Restructuring Pub Date : 2024-05-12 DOI:10.1007/s10644-024-09712-y

Vincent Tawiah, Abdulrasheed Zakari

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Abstract

In this paper, we examine the relationship between government political ideology and green innovation. We employ data on 20 democratic countries with multi-party systems between 2010 and 2018. Green innovation is measured by the total patents in environment-related technologies. We find a negative relationship between left-leaning government and green innovation, suggesting that leftist governments are associated with low green innovations. This finding is consistent with the political assumption that leftist governments resist technological advancement because it may cause unemployment, whereas rightist promotes technological advancement to benefit the capitalist. We also find that the effect of political ideology remains the same during electoral years, implying that elections do not present any pressure on parties to change their course towards green innovation. Our result implies that partisan politics matters in finding solutions to unending environmental challenges. The results are robust to alternative measurements of variables and econometric identification strategies.

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政府政治意识形态与绿色创新：经合组织国家的证据

本文研究了政府政治意识形态与绿色创新之间的关系。我们采用了 2010 年至 2018 年间 20 个多党制民主国家的数据。绿色创新以环境相关技术的专利总数来衡量。我们发现左倾政府与绿色创新之间存在负相关关系，这表明左倾政府与低绿色创新相关。这一发现与政治假设一致，即左翼政府抵制技术进步，因为技术进步可能导致失业，而右翼政府则促进技术进步，使资本家受益。我们还发现，政治意识形态的影响在选举年期间保持不变，这意味着选举不会给政党带来任何压力，迫使其改变绿色创新的路线。我们的研究结果表明，党派政治在为无休止的环境挑战寻找解决方案时非常重要。这些结果对变量的其他测量方法和计量经济学识别策略都是稳健的。

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Economic Change and Restructuring ECONOMICS-

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期刊介绍： Economic Change and Restructuring has been accepted for SSCI and will get its first Impact Factor in 2020!Since the early 1990s fundamental changes in the world economy, under the auspices of increasing globalisation, have taken place On one hand, the disappearance of the centrally planned economies and the progressive formation of market-oriented economies, have brought about countless systematic changes, where new economic structures, institutions, competences and skills involve complex processes, changes which are still underway and which necessitate adaptation and restructuring to form competitive market economies. On the other hand, many developing economies are making great strides as regards economic reform and liberalisation, and are emerging as new global players. They show an innovative capacity to position themselves in the global economy and to compete with industrialised countries, which are generally believed to be witnessing the rapid erosion of their established positions. These developments are accompanied by the exacerbation of the world competition. Both processes involve transition and the emerging economies, in searching for a new role and scope for public policies and for a new balance between public and private partnership, seem to currently be converging, especially with respect to the policies needed to create appropriate and effective market institutions and integrated reform policies, and to increase the standards of the population''s education levels. Thus, liberalisation and development policies, in attempting to strike a difficult balance between social and environmental needs, must be integrated more coherently. This complexity calls for new analytical and empirical approaches that can explain these new phenomena, which often go beyond the over-simplified facts and conventional ''wisdom'' that emerged at the start of the transition in the early 1990s. Economic Change and Restructuring (formerly ''Economics of Planning''), by keeping abreast of developments affecting both transitional and emerging economies, is aimed to attract original empirical and policy analysis contributions that are focused on various issues, including macroeconomic analysis, fiscal issues, finance and banking, industrial and trade development, and regional and local development issues. The journal aspires to publish cutting edge research and to serve as a forum for economists and policymakers working in these fields.Officially cited as: Econ Change Restruct