Term limits, wealth, and environmental treaty participation, 1970-2011
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| Dependent variable: |
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| OLS | Poisson | OLS | Poisson |
| MEAs | MEAs | MEAs + BEAs | MEAs + BEAs |
| (1) | (2) | (3) | (4) |
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Term limit | 3.985*** | 0.290* | 4.442*** | 0.292 |
| (1.138) | (0.158) | (1.500) | (0.197) |
Real GDP/capita (log) | 0.016 | -0.056 | -0.285 | -0.089** |
| (0.235) | (0.035) | (0.288) | (0.042) |
Change in real GDP/capita (pct.) | 0.001 | -0.0001 | 0.002 | 0.0001 |
| (0.002) | (0.0004) | (0.002) | (0.0003) |
Experience with democracy | -0.032 | -0.004 | -0.055* | -0.007* |
| (0.025) | (0.004) | (0.029) | (0.004) |
Disasters in prior 3 years (log) | -0.137** | -0.016** | -0.243** | -0.028*** |
| (0.058) | (0.007) | (0.102) | (0.010) |
Resource rents (pct. of GDP) | 0.065*** | 0.007*** | 0.067*** | 0.007*** |
| (0.017) | (0.002) | (0.018) | (0.003) |
XRCOMP | 0.409** | 0.044* | 0.451** | 0.044 |
| (0.186) | (0.026) | (0.207) | (0.027) |
PARCOMP | -0.210** | -0.027* | -0.270** | -0.034** |
| (0.094) | (0.015) | (0.110) | (0.016) |
IGO memberships | 0.007 | -0.001 | -0.006 | -0.003** |
| (0.011) | (0.001) | (0.013) | (0.001) |
Executive right | 0.044 | 0.007 | -0.074 | -0.007 |
| (0.129) | (0.015) | (0.161) | (0.017) |
Executive left | 0.092 | -0.006 | -0.005 | -0.022 |
| (0.127) | (0.015) | (0.156) | (0.018) |
CSO repression | 0.008 | 0.018 | 0.032 | 0.027* |
| (0.085) | (0.013) | (0.106) | (0.015) |
Presidential democracy | -0.323 | 0.035 | -0.041 | 0.071 |
| (0.302) | (0.044) | (0.325) | (0.045) |
Leader age | 0.004 | -0.0004 | 0.007 | 0.0001 |
| (0.005) | (0.001) | (0.006) | (0.001) |
Female | -0.174 | -0.013 | -0.330 | -0.015 |
| (0.193) | (0.024) | (0.265) | (0.027) |
Term limit Real GDP/capita | -0.507*** | -0.038** | -0.567*** | -0.038* |
| (0.134) | (0.018) | (0.182) | (0.023) |
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Observations | 2,053 | 2,053 | 2,053 | 2,053 |
R2 | 0.972 | | 0.961 | |
Adjusted R2 | 0.970 | | 0.958 | |
Log Likelihood | | -4,304.349 | | -4,553.719 |
Akaike Inf. Crit. | | 8,898.698 | | 9,397.438 |
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*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. |