
Abstract. There is a growing consensus that policies such as carbon taxes are needed to improve
environmental performance. We propose a theoretical framework and a model to examine how
environmental concerns determine political support for carbon taxation and the incentives for the poor
to revolt, replace the incumbent government, and achieve a fairer distribution of income. Our main
result is that the incentive to revolt is an inverted U-shaped function of environmental performance.
On the empirical side, we construct a normalized Social Unrest …[Lire la suite]