Shiran Victoria Shen (@svshen.bsky.social)

Can Autocracy Handle Climate Change? Can Autocracy Handle Climate Change? By Shiran Victoria Shen, Stanford University Existing literature on climate politics predominantly concentrates on democracies. However, there is a pressing need to examine how authoritarian regimes respond to climate change, given their growing impact on global carbon emissions and their populations’ acute climate vulnerability. Extant research often assumes that authoritarian regimes have inherent advantages in addressing climate change, leading to overly optimistic perspectives on their capabilities. https://politicalsciencenow.com/can-autocracy-handle-climate-change/