How Responsive Democracies Disincentivize Bold Climate Change Policy

• In Event: Democratic Participation and the Environment

Brief Overview

This presentation proposes that electoral politics incentivize responsive democracies to abandon bold climate change solutions. Stable non-democracies can pursue aggressive strategies, as they are not accountable to short-term public pressure.

Authors

• Xavier Royer, William Penn University

• Josh Flash, University of Nebraska at Omaha