John Rawls and compliance to climate change agreements
Insights from a laboratory experiment
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12823944 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Klaudijo Klaser (0000-0002-3398-2448, University of Trento, corresponding author), L Sacconi (0000-0003-1316-447X, University of Milano-Bicocca), Marco Faillo (0000-0002-8031-8048, University of Trento) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 21 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 531-551 |
| Publication date | 2021-03-20 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Environmental Agreements Politics Law and Economics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1567-9764 • E-ISSN: 1573-1553 |
| Publisher | Springer Science+Business Media (PUBLISHER • DE) |
| DOI | 10.1007/s10784-021-09533-8 |
| OpenAlex | W3137132295 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 82 |
The most evident shortcoming of the international agreements on climate actions is the compliance to their prescriptions. Can John Rawls’s social contract theory help us to solve the problem? We apply the veil of ignorance decision-making setting in a sequential dictator game to study the compliance to climate change agreements and we test the model in a laboratory experiment. The veil of ignorance shows to be very powerful at inducing the subjects to converge on a sustainable intergenerational path. However, the voluntary compliance to the agreement still remains an open issue, because even small incentives to defect can undermine the compliance stability, and therefore break the whole sustainable dynamic
Climate change · Compliance (psychology · Dictator · Economic Justice · Economics · Ignorance · Incentive · Law and economics · Microeconomics · Political science · Positive economics · Test (biology · Veil of ignorance · Climate Change and Geoengineering · Climate Change Policy and Economics · Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies · Law · Psychology · Social Psychology
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| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,5 |
| Citation span | 2024 - 2024 (1) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |