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Sep 30, 2024 | 
goodauthority.org | Erik Voeten |Michael Ross
In the 2015 Paris Agreement, governments promised to adopt policies that reduce greenhouse gas emissions in order to limit global warming. The most obvious tool is to increase the price of fossil fuels like gasoline. Some countries, especially in Europe, have done exactly this. Yet, in many countries gasoline taxes remain low. And a substantial number of governments explicitly have subsidies that allow citizens to buy gasoline below market prices.
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Aug 30, 2024 | 
goodauthority.org | Erik Voeten
South Korea’s constitutional court ruled that parts of the country’s climate legislation fail to protect the rights of future generations. This August 2024 ruling echoes a landmark case from Germany where the court similarly found existing climate legislation insufficiently ambitious and precise to protect the rights of future generations. But it also reflects a broader trend where domestic courts hold governments accountable for failing to uphold their climate commitments.
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Jul 11, 2024 | 
goodauthority.org | Erik Voeten |Tanisha M. Fazal
In the latest Good Authority podcast, I talked with University of Minnesota professor Tanisha Fazal about her new book, Military Medicine and the Hidden Costs of War (Oxford University Press, 2024). The book documents how major changes in military medicine have dramatically reduced American fatalities in the wars fought by the United States. This is obviously great news. However, it also leads the U.S. to dramatically underestimate the costs of war.
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Jun 25, 2024 | 
goodauthority.org | Erik Voeten
The European elections in early June resulted in a win for far-right nationalist parties, although not by as much as predicted. The largest gains were in the continent’s biggest countries: France and Germany. These two countries are also favorites to win Europe’s other big June event: the European soccer championships (EURO 2024).
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Mar 28, 2024 | 
goodauthority.org | Erik Voeten |John Sides |Michael Tesler
John Sides and Michael Tesler recently published a piece on Good Authority asking how much trouble Joe Biden is really in for the 2024 election? Our podcast episode kicks off with that big question, then delves deeper into what opinion polls in March can tell us about the November elections.
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Mar 12, 2024 | 
goodauthority.org | Erik Voeten |Simon Hix
Political scientist Simon Hix has developed a forecasting model that predicts a sharp right turn in the upcoming European elections in June. This includes a big increase in the number of seats for far-right parties in the European Parliament but also an overall shift away from the left. Simon and I talked about why we can expect such a big increase in support for far right parties, where it is happening (pretty much all over Europe), and what the consequences might be.
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Mar 11, 2024 | 
journals.sagepub.com | Erik Voeten
Data availability statementData sharing not applicable to this article as no datasets were generated or analyzed during the current study (Voeten, 2024). Data and replication materials are available at: https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/VR1XZAReferencesAbou-Chadi T., Krause W. (2020). The causal effect of radical right success on mainstream parties' policy positions: A regression discontinuity approach. British Journal of Political Science, 50(3), 829–847.
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Feb 19, 2024 | 
goodauthority.org | Erik Voeten |Daniel Kelemen
The European Union prides itself on being a cooperative community of liberal democracies. Yet, the E.U. increasingly faces problems with countries that are backsliding. The most notable example is Hungary’s government under Viktor Orbán, which has been and has been blocking Sweden’s NATO membership.
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Feb 8, 2024 | 
goodauthority.org | Erik Voeten |Layna Mosley
The that around half of low-income and middle-income countries are at high risk of debt distress or already in it. In the 2010s, developing economies had relatively easy access to credit from private lenders, China, and the traditional lenders, such as the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund (IMF), and wealthy countries. Higher interest rates now mean that the cost of servicing these debts has soared.
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Dec 27, 2023 | 
goodauthority.org | Erik Voeten |Elizabeth Saunders |Kim Yi Dionne
In our second podcast episode, we use editor Elizabeth N. Saunders’s recent reflection on 2023 to discuss some of what didn’t happen in world politics (but could have). Topics include (avoiding) nuclear war, (not ending) conflicts in Ukraine and Sudan, and (not) deporting asylum seekers to Rwanda, among others. Hear editors Erik Voeten, Elizabeth N. Saunders, and Kim Yi Dionne’s conversation using the audio player below. You can also subscribe to our podcast on Apple Podcasts.
