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Politics and the Environment: Nonlinear Instabilities Dominate

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 September 2013

Courtney Brown
Courtney Brown
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Emory University
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Abstract

This analysis investigates a formal nonlinear systems model characterizing longitudinal change in the environment as a function of oscillating partisan control of the White House. It is assumed that one political party will tend to favor help for the environment despite some economic costs, whereas the other party will generally favor economic growth over environmental concerns. These policy changes affect the environment interactively with both public concern for particular environmental problems and the economic costs relating to environmental repair. This interaction with policy changes causes a disruption in the continuously evolving balance between the social factors that damage the environment and the environment's own ability to recover. The disruptive potential to the environment is considerably ameliorated with a reduction in the electoral cycling.

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American Political Science Review , Volume 88 , Issue 2 , June 1994 , pp. 292 - 303
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Copyright © American Political Science Association 1994

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