
Can Democracy Handle Climate Change?
Daniel J. Fiorino(Author)
Polity Press
1st Edition
Published on 18. May 2018
Book
Hardback
160 pages
978-1-5095-2395-5 (ISBN)
Description
Global climate change poses an unprecedented challenge for governments across the world. Small wonder that many experts question whether democracies have the ability to cope with the causes and long-term consequences of a changing climate. Some even argue that authoritarian regimes are better equipped to make the tough choices required to tackle the climate crisis.
In this incisive book, Daniel Fiorino challenges the assumptions and evidence offered by sceptics of democracy and its capacity to handle climate change. Democracies, he explains, typically enjoy higher levels of environmental performance and produce greater innovation in technology, policy, and climate governance than autocracies. Rather than less democracy, Fiorino calls for a more accountable and responsive politics that will provide democratically-elected governments with the enhanced capacity for collective action on climate and other environmental issues.
In this incisive book, Daniel Fiorino challenges the assumptions and evidence offered by sceptics of democracy and its capacity to handle climate change. Democracies, he explains, typically enjoy higher levels of environmental performance and produce greater innovation in technology, policy, and climate governance than autocracies. Rather than less democracy, Fiorino calls for a more accountable and responsive politics that will provide democratically-elected governments with the enhanced capacity for collective action on climate and other environmental issues.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Publishing group
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 193 mm
Width: 130 mm
Thickness: 15 mm
Weight
236 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-5095-2395-5 (9781509523955)
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Daniel J Fiorino is Director of the Center for Environmental Policy at American University
Content
Tables and box
Acknowledgements
Preface
1 The Challenge to Governance
2 Do Authoritarian Regimes Do Better?
3 Why Democracies Differ
4 How Democracies Will Handle Climate Change
Notes
Further Reading
Acknowledgements
Preface
1 The Challenge to Governance
2 Do Authoritarian Regimes Do Better?
3 Why Democracies Differ
4 How Democracies Will Handle Climate Change
Notes
Further Reading