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Traditional institutions are often considered inadequate to govern for the long term as their politicians promote short-term thinking which can harm the future. This book proposes a novel theory of social time perception to address the short-term thinking of traditional institutions which threaten to stifle liberal democracies. The semi-future reconfigures liberal democracies' franchises, representative instruments, deliberative practices, accountability mechanisms, and policymaking to include in the demos all citizens, regardless of age, and holders of representable objective interests in the future. The result is not only a way to legitimise long-term governance but also to improve the quality of current democracies.
Contents
Introduction: Facing the Democratic Temporal Puzzle
Part I - Democracy and the Long-Term View
Chapter 1: Multitemporal Democracy: The Balance Between the Short Term and the Long Term
Chapter 2: Bringing the Future into the Present: The Legitimacy Gap in Non-Overlapping Contexts
Part II - The Semi-Future Polity
Chapter 3: The Semi-Future Temporal Order: A Novel Form of Presentism
Chapter 4: Semi-Future Representation: Justifying Responsiveness to Objective Interests in the Future
Chapter 5: Semi-Future Accountability: The Ways of Responsibility and Reflexivity Towards the Future
Chapter 6: Semi-Future Policymaking: The Implementation of Long-Term Democratic Governance
Epilogue: Future-Oriented Democratic Theory
Acknowledgements
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