A river runs through it. Joint democracy and the provision of transboundary public goods.

The aim of this paper is to show the impact of democratic structures on the provision of transboundary public goods. Empirically, I focus on governments' behaviour regarding transboundary river management using a new dataset on transboundary water events covering all international basins for a period of ten years. Based on these event data, I analyse whether democratic countries tend to differ with respect to their mutual environmental commitments (on both cross-border and border-demarcating rivers) compared to non-democratic countries. In particular, I juxtapose both the severity and the salience of possible environmental problems and water scarcity with cooperative (and conflictive) events between riparian countries' governments with respect to joint river management.Given that some of the data still needs to be coded, this paper only briefly describes the research design and data rather than providing a rigourous test of the theoretical argument. ..PAT.-Unpublished Manuscript [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]