Democracy and the Future : : Future-Regarding Governance in Democratic Systems / / ed. by Michael MacKenzie.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2023 English
• MitwirkendeR: Caluwaerts, Didier,; Hansson, Sven Ove,; Herne, Kaisa,; Koskimaa, Vesa,; Kulha, Katariina,; Kyllönen, Simo,; Lagerspetz, Eerik,; Landwehr, Claudia,; MacKenzie, Michael K.,; Moore, Alfred,; Rapeli, Lauri,; Setälä, Maija,; Smith, Graham,; Sormunen, Hilma,; Vermassen, Daan,; Warren, Mark E.,
• HerausgeberIn: MacKenzie, Michael,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2023]; ©2023
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (324 p.) :; 15 B/W illustrations 4 B&W figures & 11 B&W tables
• Other title: Frontmatter --; 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
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781399512763; 9783111319292; 9783111318912; 9783111319254; 9783111318677; 9783110797640
• DOI: 10.1515/9781399512763
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: ed. by Michael MacKenzie.

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.