Liberal Democracy and the Problem of Political Agency: The Limits to Change in Environmental Politics

Liberal democracy has been an impressively successful model of political order in an era that was characterised by economic growth and resource abundance. But how will it fare in the 21^st century, when the pressing challenges of climate change, resource scarcity and environmental degradation require a comprehensive transformation of industrial societies? Does it have the institutional capacity to facilitate the necessary processes of radical societal change? Or is it structurally tied to pr...