Audio Books →Future Publics Democracy, Deliberation, and Future-Regarding Collective Action [Audiobook]

English | ASIN: B09FYHKMXZ | 2021 | 9 hours and 38 minutes |MP3|M4B | 264 MB
Scholars have often claimed that democracies, whatever their virtues, are functionally short-sighted. The evidence is clear: We have been unable to manage many long-term issues, including climate change, nuclear waste disposal, natural disaster preparedness, infrastructure maintenance, and budget deficits. To solve long-term problems, do we need political systems that are less democratic, or even authoritarian? This idea, which Michael K. MacKenzie calls the "democratic myopia thesis", is a sort of conventional wisdom; it is an idea that scholars and pundits take for granted as a truth about democracy without subjecting it to adequate critical scrutiny.