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"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...
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Polity Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Cambridge, UK : |
| Publication Dates: | 2018. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Series: |
Democratic futures Series
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| Summary: |
"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"--The publisher. |
| Carrier Form: | x, 143 pages ; 20 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 118-121). |
| ISBN: |
9781509523962 1509523960 9781509523955 1509523952 |
| Index Number: | GE170 |
| CLC: |
P467-05 X-01 |
| Call Number: | X-01/F521 |
| Contents: | The challenge to governance -- Do authoritarian regimes do better? -- Why democracies differ -- How democracies can handle climate change. |