DELIBERATIVE DEMOCRACY AND CLIMATE CHANGE
| Author | TIM FORSYTH |
| Date | 01 December 2014 |
| Published date | 01 December 2014 |
| DOI | http://doi.org/10.1111/padm.12133 |
doi: 10.1111/padm.12133
BOOK REVIEW ESSAY
DELIBERATIVE DEMOCRACY AND CLIMATE CHANGE
TIM FORSYTH
INSTITUTIONALIZING UNSUSTAINABILITY: THE PARADOX OF GLOBAL
CLIMATE GOVERNANCE
Hayley Stevenson
University of California Press, 2012, xiii +275 pp., £27.95 (pb), ISBN: 9781938169021
CLIMATE CHALLENGED SOCIETY
John S. Dryzek, Richard Norgaard and David Schlosberg
Oxford University Press, 2013, 192 pp., £16.99 (pb), ISBN: 9780199660117
CLIMATE GOVERNANCE IN THE DEVELOPING WORLD
David Held, Charles Roger and Eva-Maria Nag (eds)
Polity Press, 2013, 272 pp., £17.99 (pb), ISBN: 9780745662770
NEGOTIATING CLIMATE CHANGE: RADICAL DEMOCRACY AND THE
ILLUSION OF CONSENSUS
Amanda Machin
Zed, 2013, 176 pp., £18.99 (pb), ISBN: 9781780323978
DEMOCRATIZING GLOBAL CLIMATE GOVERNANCE
Hayley Stevenson and John S. Dryzek
Cambridge University Press, 2014, xii +256 pp., £18.99 (pb), ISBN: 9781107608535
Since the emergence of anthropocentric climate change as a theme of public policy some
25 years ago, much academic debate has taken place within the discipline of Interna-
tional Relations, and especially the study of how competing nation states can overcome
national interests in order to sign international agreements to limit greenhouse gases.
Increasingly, scholars from other academic disciplines such as sociology and public policy
have begun to analyse climate change politics. These approaches differ from the tradi-
tional approach of International Relations because they focus more upon how different
sub-state social actors such as citizens and businesses contest climate change politics, and
how their actions are governed by underlying discourses, rather than on the analysis of
national interests alone. A key theme of this analysis is deliberative democracy – or the
achievement of political actions through open debate, and the consideration of differences
between actors.
Tim Forsyth is at the Department of International Development, London School of Economics and Political Science,
UK.
Public Administration Vol.92, No. 4, 2014 (1115–1123)
© 2014 John Wiley & Sons Ltd.
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