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Beschreibung:
Many industrialized countries have experienced an increase in environmental awareness and support to green lobby groups in past decades. This paper develops a political-economy model, based on special-interest group politics, with two large countries, intra-industry trade, and transnational environmental externalities to investigate to what extend a rise of environmentalism, via the induced change in political power structures, can successfully encourage higher pollution taxes and reduce pollution. The main finding is that a rise of environmentalism may not be sufficient to protect environmental resources. While this is likely to be the case in relation to sulphur emission and acid rain, it is less likely to be a problem in relation to global environmental problems such as CO2 and global warming