The territory of democracy

The presumption that the jurisdiction of the state extends to the borderes of a certain territory is increasingly being challenged, both by indigenous people within this territory, and by extraterritoriral border control.

Victor Galaz, deputy director and associate professor at the Stockholm Resilience Centre.AbstractThe role of “tax havens” in the global economy has gained increasing attention in recent years. The dis

Ulf Mörkenstam

 I’m Professor in Political Science at Stockholm University. I defended my dissertation at the same university in 1999. At the institute, I participate in the research project "The territory of democrac

Frontiers in Climate 4 Abstract Since introducing a path-breaking carbon tax in 2008, the western Canadian province of British Columbia (BC) has attracted significant attention from climate policy schola

Mårten Schultz: Risk and responsibility

Legal responsibility comes in different forms. Private law deals with questions of responsibility for harm that someone causes another. The responsibility requires three things: That someone was harme

Mark Jaccard, Professor in the School of Resource and Environmental Management at Simon Fraser University, VancouverAbstractThere are obvious reasons why for three decades most jurisdictions have failPublic surveys and observation of real-world GHG reduction successes suggest that explicit carbon pricing (carbon tax and perhaps cap-and-trade) can be substantially more politically difficult than certain regulatory policies for shifting the energy system on to a deep decarbonization trajectory. Nonetheless, some people have argued that carbon pricing is an essential GHG reduction policy, suggesting that sincere politicians must do carbon pricing no matter how politically difficult. But the claim that carbon pricing is essential is factually incorrect. Deep decarbonization can be achieved entirely with regulations. Regulatory policies are unlikely to be as economically efficient as carbon pricing. But not all regulations perform identically when it comes to the economic-efficiency criterion. Flexible regulations have some attributes that make them low cost relative to regulations that require adoption of specific technologies.This talk provides evidence that assesses both the relative economic efficiency of policies and their relative political acceptability. The findings reported here suggest that some kinds of flexible regulations can perform significantly better than explicit carbon pricing in terms of relative political cost per tonne reduced while performing only marginally worse in terms of economic cost per tonne reduced. Presumably, this type of trade-off information could be of value to politicians who sincerely want deep decarbonization but would also like to be rewarded with re-election so that they and competing politicians see the value in ambitious and sustained GHG reduction efforts.

Mårten Schultz is professor of law at Stockholm UniversityAbstractLegal responsibility comes in different forms. Private law deals with questions of responsibility for harm that someone causes another.

Studies on climate ethics and future generations vol 1

Working reports 2019 nr 1–11. Paul Bowman & Katharina Berndt Rasmussen (eds) There is a very rich scientific literature on different emission pathways and the climatic changes associated with them.

Hanna Wass is an Academy Research Fellow and University Lecturer in the Department of Political and Economic Studies at the University of Helsinki. ABSTRACT As a potentially antifragile system, the stre

Daniel Naurin, Department of Political Science, Göteborg University Judicial independence is a challenge for courts whose decisions have politically salient consequences. Several tools are available fo