Nazarov, ZafarObydenkova, Anastassia2023-05-162023-05-162022Nazarov Z, Obydenkova A. Environmental challenges and political regime transition: the role of historical legacies and the European Union in Eurasia. Problems of Post-Communism. 2022;69(4-5):396-409. DOI: 10.1080/10758216.2021.19954371075-8216http://hdl.handle.net/10230/56832This paper addresses the impact of political regimes on carbon emissions (CO2) from a historical perspective, covering the period of 1970–2015. Our sample consists of 153 countries that we follow for 20 years before the transition (1970–1990) and 26 years after it (1990–2015). During transition, postCommunist states experienced a decline in CO2, when controlling for economic variables. Transition had a positive impact on the environment only in cases when it was associated with democratization. When transition has led to consolidation of autocratic regimes, CO2 has increased.application/pdfeng© 2021 The Author(s). Published with license by Taylor & Francis Group, LLC. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, and is not altered, transformed, or built upon in any way.ContaminacióPostcomunismeEuràsiainfo:eu-repo/semantics/articlehttp://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10758216.2021.1995437info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess