Democracy and the Future: Future-Regarding Governance in Democratic Systems

✍ Scribed by Michael MacKenzie (editor); Maija Setälä (editor); Simo Kyllönen (editor)

Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Year: 2023
Tongue: English
Leaves: 334
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

This book brings together political philosophers, democratic theorists, empirical political scientists, and policy experts to examine why representative democracies have so often failed to anticipate future problems and consider the long-term consequences of policy decisions. It examines these topics from many different perspectives — it is interdisciplinary and globally-oriented — but it also explores Finland as an example of how long-term governance might be done. Finland has one of the most advanced governmental foresight systems in the world, including a unique parliamentary institution called the ‘Committee for the Future’ and it has enjoyed a stable, multiparty government for decades. The book concludes that such elite-driven institutions should be complemented by robust institutions for public participation and deliberation in order to retain responsiveness while at the same time forging public commitments for future-regarding action.

✦ Table of Contents

CONTENTS
FIGURES AND TABLES
CONTRIBUTORS
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
INTRODUCTION The Challenges and Possibilities of Future-Regarding Governance
Part One The Challenges of Long-Term Decision Making
ONE Three Challenges for Long-Term Decision-Making in Democracies: Boundaries, Knowledge and Incentives
TWO Democratic Weakness of Will
THREE Reversibility and Democracy: The Epistemic Functions of Political Competition
FOUR The Covid-19 Pandemic and Global Climate Change: Comparing Two Long-term Dangers
Part Two Thinking and Acting in Future-Regarding Ways
FIVE Perspective-Taking, Deliberation and Future Generations
SIX Hearing Silent Voices? Representing Identified and Statistical Policy Victims
SEVEN Future-Regarding Democratic Leadership
Part Three Institutional Design
EIGHT Democratic Design for Future-Regarding Institutions
NINE Democratic Institutions and Future Generations
Part Four Long-Term Policymaking in Finland
TEN The Finnish National Foresight System
ELEVEN Voter Myopia Reassessed
TWELVE Deliberative Minipublics and Climate Change Policy
THIRTEEN Conclusion: Future-Regarding Governance – Four Tensions and a Research Agenda
REFERENCES
INDEX

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