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Governing for the Future? Life expectancy and the politics of environmental investment

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1001 ‎$0‎MAPA20210035807‎$a‎Alfano, Vincenzo
24514‎$a‎Governing for the Future? Life expectancy and the politics of environmental investment‎$c‎Vincenzo Alfano; Salvatore Capasso; Marcello Signorelli
520  ‎$a‎This article investigates whether the temporal orientation of political actors influences the allocation of public resources to environmental policy. Using a novel panel dataset of Italian regions from 2000 to 2021, the study links demographic information on executives and legislative assemblies to disaggregated public expenditure data. Employing fractional response models, it estimates the effect of policymakers' life expectancy-adjusted age on the share of environmental spending across current, capital, and total expenditure. Results indicate that regions with legislative bodies having longer remaining life spans allocate a smaller share to environmental policy, while executives' longer horizons positively influence capital investment in the environment. These findings highlight institutional asymmetries in intertemporal politics and contribute to understanding how demographic characteristics of policymakers shape sustainability-oriented fiscal decisions.
650 4‎$0‎MAPA20080586850‎$a‎Política económica
650 4‎$0‎MAPA20080569556‎$a‎Medio ambiente
650 4‎$0‎MAPA20080580865‎$a‎Impacto ambiental
650 4‎$0‎MAPA20080600877‎$a‎Desarrollo sostenible
650 4‎$0‎MAPA20080546915‎$a‎Economía
651  ‎$0‎MAPA20080637767‎$a‎Italia
7001 ‎$0‎MAPA20260008714‎$a‎Capasso, Salvatore
7001 ‎$0‎MAPA20260008721‎$a‎Signorelli, Marcello
7730 ‎$w‎MAP20210010194‎$g‎13/04/2026 Volumen 34 - 2026 ‎$t‎The Journal of the economics of ageing ‎$d‎Oxford : Elsevier ScienceDirect, 2021-
8564 ‎$u‎https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jeoa.2026.100621