Frederic Hanusch

Democracy and Climate Change

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book demonstrates that overall stronger democratic principles and democratic qualities tend to correlate with improved climate performance. Beginning by outlining a general concept of democratic efficacy, the book provides an empirical analysis of the influence of the quality of democracy on climate change performance.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Juni 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 435g
• ISBN-13: 9780367248048
• ISBN-10: 0367248042
• Artikelnr.: 57003872

Autorenporträt

Frederic Hanusch is a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies (IASS), Potsdam, Germany.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1. Introduction
Part I The Bases for the Analyses
Chapter 2. The unknown influence of democratic qualities on climate
performance
Chapter 3. The concept and the operationalization of democratic efficacy
Part II. An Empirical Analysis of the Democracy-Climate Nexus
Chapter 4. Analysis I: more leads to more -positive statistical trends
Chapter 5. Analysis II: Canada's Kyoto Protocol process, 1995-2012 - a case
study perspective
Chapter 6. 1995-1997: Chrétien makes use of the prerogative
Chapter 7. 1998-2002: futile consultations
Chapter 8. 2003-2005: undemocratic unpredictability
Chapter 9. 2006-2012: democratic weakening and climate change as a shield
issue
Chapter 10. Discussion analysis II: linkages between democratic quality and
climate performance
Part III. Synergy
Chapter 11. Overall discussion
Chapter 12. Conclusion
Afterword