Over the past three decades, China, Taiwan, and South Korea have become home to some of the world's most costly air pollution problems. In my dissertation, I propose a political institutional explanation for why these rapidly industrializing states experienced varying degrees of success resolving these problems. My explanation centers on political access---the extent to which institutional reforms transformed (1) popular elections; (2) political parties; (3) legislatures; and (4) non-governmental organizations (NGOs) into legitimate channels through which environmentalists can exert their influence over environmental policy decisions.
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