Term limits, age, and environmental treaty participation, 1970-2011
Dependent variable:
OLSPoissonOLSPoisson
MEAsMEAsMEAs + BEAsMEAs + BEAs
(1)(2)(3)(4)
Term limit-1.391-0.144-2.065**-0.287**
(0.852)(0.112)(0.962)(0.125)
Real GDP/capita (log)0.001-0.0010.002-0.0005
(0.005)(0.001)(0.007)(0.001)
Change in real GDP/capita (pct.)-0.189-0.071**-0.527*-0.108***
(0.232)(0.035)(0.287)(0.042)
Experience with democracy0.002-0.00010.0030.0002
(0.002)(0.0004)(0.002)(0.0003)
Disasters in prior 3 years (log)-0.030-0.004-0.052*-0.007*
(0.025)(0.004)(0.029)(0.004)
Resource rents (pct. of GDP)-0.130**-0.015**-0.233**-0.027***
(0.059)(0.007)(0.102)(0.010)
XRCOMP0.065***0.007***0.066***0.007**
(0.016)(0.002)(0.018)(0.003)
PARCOMP0.364*0.0400.394*0.039
(0.186)(0.026)(0.207)(0.027)
IGO memberships-0.194**-0.026*-0.250**-0.032**
(0.094)(0.015)(0.110)(0.016)
Executive right0.003-0.001-0.011-0.003**
(0.011)(0.001)(0.013)(0.001)
Executive left0.0640.008-0.047-0.005
(0.129)(0.015)(0.161)(0.017)
CSO repression0.116-0.0040.027-0.018
(0.127)(0.015)(0.157)(0.018)
Presidential democracy0.0560.022*0.0900.032**
(0.086)(0.013)(0.106)(0.015)
Leader age-0.3010.0360.0040.075*
(0.302)(0.044)(0.322)(0.045)
Female-0.211-0.016-0.369-0.017
(0.193)(0.024)(0.265)(0.027)
Term limit Leader age0.0190.0020.029*0.004**
(0.014)(0.002)(0.016)(0.002)
Observations2,0532,0532,0532,053
R20.9720.961
Adjusted R20.9690.958
Log Likelihood-4,305.034-4,553.564
Akaike Inf. Crit.8,900.0699,397.128
*p<0.1; **p<0.05; ***p<0.01
Note: Robust (HC1) standard errors in parentheses.
Country- and year dummies included but omitted from table output.