Systemic Unsustainability as a Threat to Democracy

Andrea Felicetti

Environmental Values, 2021, vol. 30, issue 4, 431-451

Abstract: Resilient socioeconomic unsustainability poses a threat to democracy whose importance has yet to be fully acknowledged. As the prospect of sustainability transition wanes, so does perceived legitimacy of institutions. This further limits representative institutions’ ability to take action, making democratic deepening all the more urgent. I investigate this argument through an illustrative case study, the 2017 People's Climate March. In a context of resilient unsustainability, protesters have little expectation that institutions might address the ecological crisis and this view is likely to spread. New ways of thinking about this problem and a new research agenda are needed.

Keywords: Democracy; social movements; legitimacy; People's Climate March; Trump (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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