Overview
- Explores the relationship between democratic features and environmental performance in democracies and autocracies
- Uses the example of air pollution levels, and tracks performance against a variety of democratic indicators
- Explains where democratic qualities need to be strengthened to tackle climate change
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Table of contents (6 chapters)
Keywords
- environmental performance
- democracy
- autocracy
- democratic qualities
- environmental protection
- climate policy
- regime type
- environmental theory
- climate change
- political institutions
- corruption
- institutional quality
- social equality
- local democracy
- regional democracy
- policy implementation
- policy implications
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Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
Melanie Walter-Rogg is Professor of Political Science and Methodology at the University of Regensburg, Germany. She has co-edited The Political Ecology of the Metropolis (2013) and authored a number of articles and book chapters on Public Policy Analysis, Metropolitan Governance, Urban Democracy as well as Political Culture and Political Behaviour.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Environmental Performance in Democracies and Autocracies
Book Subtitle: Democratic Qualities and Environmental Protection
Authors: Romy Escher, Melanie Walter-Rogg
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-38054-0
Publisher: Palgrave Pivot Cham
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-38053-3Published: 18 February 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-38056-4Published: 18 February 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-38054-0Published: 17 February 2020
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 162
Number of Illustrations: 26 b/w illustrations, 32 illustrations in colour
Topics: Public Policy, Political Theory, Democracy, Environmental Policy, Comparative Politics