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Zmiany klimatu jako wyzwanie. Reakcje państw demokratycznych i autorytarnych
Climate Change as a Challenge: Responses of Democratic and Authoritarian States

Author(s): Renata Kusiak-Winter
Subject(s): Government/Political systems
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Wrocławskiego
Keywords: democracies vs. autocracies; climate change; parliamentary democracy; local democracy

Summary/Abstract: The diagnosis, widespread in the literature, of the unreliability of the traditional instruments of parliamentary democracy in the face of the problems of the climate crisis should not be interpreted as praise of the climate solutions adopted in authoritarian states. Comparing these antinomic systems of governance leads not so much to a rejection of parliamentary democracy as to a statement of the indispensability of strengthening all forms of grassroots democracy. It is the local approach to global problems that seems to be the remedy for effectively tackling climate change.

  • Issue Year: 46/2024
  • Issue No: 4
  • Page Range: 7-21
  • Page Count: 15
  • Language: Polish
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