This page intentionally left blank P1:ILM CY131/Scrugges-FM CY131/Scrugges 0521816726 November25,2002 21:21 Sustaining Abundance Theultimategoalofenvironmentalpolicyisreducingpollution.Attentionto environmental problems in the social sciences has brought some bold gener- alizationsaboutcausesofgoodresultsbutalmostnosystematiccross-national studies that flesh out major theoretical arguments and test those claims with data.Thisstudymakesaseminalcontributiontothateffortintwoways.First, by taking environmental outcomes over the past thirty years as the central dependentvariable,itprovidesabasisforevaluatingnationalperformancein reducingenvironmentalproblems.Second,bydevelopingadatasetincluding performanceinanumberofcountriesandelaboratingonmajorexplanationsof environmentalperformancefoundintheliterature,thisstudyprovidesthemost rigorousavailableanalysisofthedeterminantsofenvironmentalperformance. Insodoing,itchallengeswhatisprobablytheconventionalwisdominthesocial sciences.Thisbookwillhelptoplacethestudyofenvironmentalpoliticsonpar withothercomparativestudiessuchasGostaEsping-Andersen’sThreeWorlds of Welfare Capitalism, Arend Lijphart’s Democracies, and G. Bingham Powell’s ContemporaryDemocracies. Lyle Scruggs is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Connecticut.Hisresearchandteachinginterestsareintheareasofcomparative politicaleconomyandenvironmentalpolicy.Hisarticleshaveappearedinthe BritishJournalofPoliticalScience,EcologicalEconomics,theJournalofPolitics,and Political Research Quarterly. He is currently working on a project examining changesinwelfarestateprogramssincethe1960samongtwenty-oneOECD countries. i P1:ILM CY131/Scrugges-FM CY131/Scrugges 0521816726 November25,2002 21:21 ii P1:ILM CY131/Scrugges-FM CY131/Scrugges 0521816726 November25,2002 21:21 Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics GeneralEditor MargaretLeviUniversityofWashington,Seattle AssociateEditors RobertH.BatesHarvardUniversity SusanStokesUniversityofChicago PeterHallHarvardUniversity FrancesRosenbluthYaleUniversity HelenMilnerColumbiaUniversity StephenHansonUniversityofWashington,Seattle SidneyTarrowCornellUniversity PeterLangeDukeUniversity OtherBooksintheSeries StefanoBartolini,ThePoliticalMobilizationoftheEuropeanLeft, 1860–1980:TheClassCleavage MarkR.Beissinger,NationalistMobilizationandtheCollapseoftheSoviet State CarlesBoix,PoliticalParties,GrowthandEquality:ConservativeandSocial DemocraticEconomicStrategiesintheWorldEconomy CatherineBoone,MerchantCapitalandtheRootsofStatePowerinSenegal, 1930–1985 MichaelBrattonandNicolasvandeWalle,DemocraticExperimentsin Africa:RegimeTransitionsinComparativePerspective ValerieBunce,LeavingSocialismandLeavingtheState:TheEndof Yugoslavia,theSovietUnion,andCzechoslovakia RuthBerinsCollier,PathstowardDemocracy:TheWorkingClassandElites inWesternEuropeandSouthAmerica NancyBermeo,ed.,UnemploymentintheNewEurope DonatelladellaPorta,SocialMovements,PoliticalViolence,andtheState GeraldEaster,ReconstructingtheState:PersonalNetworksandEliteIdentity RobertJ.FranzeseJr.,MacroeconomicPoliciesofDevelopedDemocracies ListofbooksinseriescontinuesaftertheIndex iii P1:ILM CY131/Scrugges-FM CY131/Scrugges 0521816726 November25,2002 21:21 iv P1:ILM CY131/Scrugges-FM CY131/Scrugges 0521816726 November25,2002 21:21 Sustaining Abundance ENVIRONMENTAL PERFORMANCE IN INDUSTRIAL DEMOCRACIES LYLE SCRUGGS UniversityofConnecticut v    Cambridge, New York, Melbourne, Madrid, Cape Town, Singapore, São Paulo Cambridge University Press The Edinburgh Building, Cambridge  , United Kingdom Published in the United States of America by Cambridge University Press, New York www.cambridge.org Information on this title: www.cambridge.org/9780521816724 © Lyle Scruggs 2003 This book is in copyright. Subject to statutory exception and to the provision of relevant collective licensing agreements, no reproduction of any part may take place without the written permission of Cambridge University Press. First published in print format 2003 isbn--13 978-0-511-06951-2 eBook (EBL) isbn--10 0-511-06951-0 eBook (EBL) isbn--13 978-0-521-81672-4 hardback isbn--10 0-521-81672-6 hardback isbn--13 978-0-521-01692-6 paperback isbn--10 0-521-01692-4 paperback Cambridge University Press has no responsibility for the persistence or accuracy of s for external or third-party internet websites referred to in this book, and does not guarantee that any content on such websites is, or will remain, accurate or appropriate. P1:ILM CY131/Scrugges-FM CY131/Scrugges 0521816726 November25,2002 21:21 ForLaura vii P1:ILM CY131/Scrugges-FM CY131/Scrugges 0521816726 November25,2002 21:21 viii