The Semi-Future Democracy

Name: The Semi-Future Democracy
Brand: Edinburgh University Press
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A Liberal Theory of the Long-Term View

By: Andre Santos Campos

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Hardcover | 11 March 2025

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242 Pages

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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.

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How to promote justice, legitimacy and sustainability across generations is one of the most important questions currently facing humanity. Santos Campos' stimulating book provides a rich and sophisticated discussion, together with a set of innovative positive proposals. Required reading.--Stephen Gardiner, University of Washington
This is a rich, innovative and important book on the potential for making democratic institutions more sensitive to the interests of future generations. Taking normative commitments to democratic legitimacy seriously, Santos Campos shows how we can avoid myopic electoral politics on the basis of new democratic understandings of time and political representation.--Ludvig Beckman, Stockholm University

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