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Free Download Michael K. MacKenzie, "Future Publics: Democracy, Deliberation, and Future-Regarding Collective Action"
English | ISBN: 0197557155 | 2021 | 240 pages | EPUB, PDF | 996 KB + 9 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. If voters and influential actors, such as interest groups and corporations, have dominant short-term interests, it may be difficult for elected politicians to act in the long-term interests of society, even if they think that it would be the right thing to do. To solve long-term problems, do we need political systems that are less democratic, or even authoritarian?