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Exceptional Circumstances: Does Climate Change Trump Democracy?

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Nico Stehr: Pioneer in the Theory of Society and Knowledge

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Abstract

The threats to democracy in the modern era are many. Not least is the risk posed by the widespread feeling among different segments of the public in contemporary democracies that no one from the political class is listening. Such discontent reaches from the Tea Party in the United States and the UK Independence Party (UKIP) in the United Kingdom to the Alternative for Germany (AfD) Party in Germany and the National Front in France.

This text was first published as: Stehr, Nico. 2016. “Exceptional Circumstances. Does Climate Change Trump Democracy ?”, Issues in Science and Technology, 32(2): 37–44. The permission to republish this text was granted on 24 July 2107 by Sonja Gold on behalf of the University of Texas in Dallas.

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    Nico Stehr

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Stehr, N. (2018). Exceptional Circumstances: Does Climate Change Trump Democracy?. In: Adolf, M. (eds) Nico Stehr: Pioneer in the Theory of Society and Knowledge. Pioneers in Arts, Humanities, Science, Engineering, Practice, vol 16. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-76995-0_23

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