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

CONTENTS\nFIGURES AND TABLES\nCONTRIBUTORS\nACKNOWLEDGEMENTS\nINTRODUCTION The Challenges and Possibilities of Future-Regarding Governance\nPart One The Challenges of Long-Term Decision Making\nONE Three Challenges for Long-Term Decision-Making in Democracies: Boundaries, Knowledge and Incentives\nTWO Democratic Weakness of Will\nTHREE Reversibility and Democracy: The Epistemic Functions of Political Competition\nFOUR The Covid-19 Pandemic and Global Climate Change: Comparing Two Long-term Dangers\nPart Two Thinking and Acting in Future-Regarding Ways\nFIVE Perspective-Taking, Deliberation and Future Generations\nSIX Hearing Silent Voices? Representing Identified and Statistical Policy Victims\nSEVEN Future-Regarding Democratic Leadership\nPart Three Institutional Design\nEIGHT Democratic Design for Future-Regarding Institutions\nNINE Democratic Institutions and Future Generations\nPart Four Long-Term Policymaking in Finland\nTEN The Finnish National Foresight System\nELEVEN Voter Myopia Reassessed\nTWELVE Deliberative Minipublics and Climate Change Policy\nTHIRTEEN Conclusion: Future-Regarding Governance – Four Tensions and a Research Agenda\nREFERENCES\nINDEX