Term limits, wealth, and environmental treaty participation, 1970-2011
Dependent variable:
OLSPoissonOLSPoisson
MEAsMEAsMEAs + BEAsMEAs + BEAs
(1)(2)(3)(4)
Term limit3.985***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.)0.001-0.00010.0020.0001
(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)
XRCOMP0.409**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 memberships0.007-0.001-0.006-0.003**
(0.011)(0.001)(0.013)(0.001)
Executive right0.0440.007-0.074-0.007
(0.129)(0.015)(0.161)(0.017)
Executive left0.092-0.006-0.005-0.022
(0.127)(0.015)(0.156)(0.018)
CSO repression0.0080.0180.0320.027*
(0.085)(0.013)(0.106)(0.015)
Presidential democracy-0.3230.035-0.0410.071
(0.302)(0.044)(0.325)(0.045)
Leader age0.004-0.00040.0070.0001
(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)
Observations2,0532,0532,0532,053
R20.9720.961
Adjusted R20.9700.958
Log Likelihood-4,304.349-4,553.719
Akaike Inf. Crit.8,898.6989,397.438
*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.