An Empirical Study of the Determinants of Green Party Voting

Ecological Economics, 2014, vol. 105, issue C, 306-318

Abstract: I empirically study the determinants of individuals' green voting behavior. For this I make use of three datasets from Germany, a panel dataset and two cross-sectional datasets. The empirically strongest determinants are the voters' attitude or distance to nuclear sites, the level of schooling and net income. I show that those voters with deviant attitudes or alternative world views are more likely to vote green, a result of the fact that the green party has always had the position of a protest party. I find little role for demographic variables like gender, marital status or the number of children. This is in contrast to the stated preference literature. Age plays a role for explaining voting behavior only insofar as it proxies for health.

Keywords: Green voting; Environmental attitude; Nuclear power; Econometric study (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D72 Q50 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2014.05.007

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