气候变化领域集成服务门户(CCPortal): Climate change and state evolution

CCPortal

DOI	10.1073/pnas.2020893118
	Climate change and state evolution
	Benati G.; Guerriero C.
发表日期	2021
ISSN	00278424
卷号	118 期号:14
英文摘要	Despite the vast evidence on the short-run effects of adverse climate shocks on the economy, our understanding of their long-run impact on institutions is limited. To tackle such a key issue, a vast body of research has focused on ancient societies because of the limited complexity of their economies and their unparalleled experience with environmental and institutional change. Notably, the "collapse archaeology" literature has reported countless correlations consistent with the mantra that severe droughts are bound to trigger institutional crises. This conclusion, however, has been recently challenged by a stream of papers that, building on more detailed data on Bronze Age Mesopotamia and a more credible theory-based empirical strategy, have yielded the following two results. First, severe droughts pushed the elites to grant strong political and property rights to the nonelites to convince them that a sufficient part of the returns on joint investments would be shared via public good provision and, thus, to cooperate and accumulate a culture of cooperation. Second, a more favorable climate allowed the elites to elicit cooperation under less inclusive political regimes as well as a weaker culture of cooperation and, possibly, incomplete property rights. These patterns emphasize the importance of considering the asymmetric effect of droughts and, more generally, combining natural and social sciences for the evaluation of climate-related policies. © 2021 National Academy of Sciences. All rights reserved.
英文关键词	Climate change; Culture of cooperation; Inclusive political institutions; Property rights; State evolution
语种	英语
来源期刊	Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/179966
作者单位	Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences, Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, Tübingen, 72074, Germany; Department of Economics, University of Bologna, Bologna, 40126, Italy
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Benati G.,Guerriero C.. Climate change and state evolution[J],2021,118(14).
APA	Benati G.,&Guerriero C..(2021).Climate change and state evolution.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America,118(14).
MLA	Benati G.,et al."Climate change and state evolution".Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 118.14(2021).