PART 1: INTRODUCTORY CHAPTERS
1: Iñigo González-Ricoy and Axel Gosseries: Designing Institutions
for Future Generations: An Introduction
Michael K. MacKenzie: Institutional Design and Sources of
Short-Termism
PART 2 GENERAL TOOLS AND ISSUES
3: Nicholas Vrousalis: Intergenerational Justice: a Primer
4: Stéphane Zuber: Measuring Intergenerational Fairness
5: Anja Karnein: Can We Represent Future Generations?
6: Axel Gosseries: Generational Sovereignty
PART 3 FUTURE-FOCUSED INSTITUTIONS
7: Ludvig Beckman and Fredrik Uggla: The Ombudsman for Future
Generations: Legitimate and Effective?
8: Simon Caney: Political Institutions for the Future: A Five-Fold
Package
9: John Broome and Duncan K. Foley: A World Climate Bank
10: Iñigo González-Ricoy: Constitutionalising Intergenerational
Provisions
11: Dennis F. Thompson: Democratic Trusteeship: Institutions to
Protect the Future of the Democratic Process
12: Marcel Szabo: A Common Heritage Fund for Future Generations
13: Kristian Skagen Ekeli: Electoral Design, Sub-Majority Rules and
Representation for Future Generations
14: Chiara Cordelli and Rob Reich: Philanthropy and
Intergenerational Justice
PART 4 FUTURE-BENEFICIAL INSTITUTIONS
15: Simon Niemeyer and Julia Jennstål: The Deliberative Democratic
Inclusion of Future Generations
16: Juliana Bidadanure: Youth Quotas, Diversity, and Long-Termism:
Can Young People Act as Proxies for Future Generations?
17: Michael K. MacKenzie: A General-Purpose, Randomly Selected
Chamber
18: Claudio López-Guerra: Pilotage Responsibility and
Intergenerational Justice
19: Karl Widerquist: The People's Endowment
20: Virginie Pérotin: Democratic Firms: Assets for the
Long-Term
21: Jonathan White: Archiving for the Future: the Party
Constitution
22: Danielle Zwarthoed: Alumni Involvement and Long-Termist
University Governance
23: Joakim Sandberg: Pension Funds, Future Generations, and
Fiduciary Duty
24: Thomas Baudin and Paula Gobbi: Family Planning is Not
(Necessarily) the Priority Institution for Reducing Fertility
Iñigo González-Ricoy is Assistant Professor of Political Philosophy
at the University of Barcelona. He has been postdoctoral fellow at
the University of Louvain and Pompeu Fabra University and visiting
fellow at Columbia University and Goethe University in Frankfurt.
His research is in democratic and constitutional theory, and has
been published in the Journal of Applied Philosophy, Social Theory
and Practice, and Ratio Juris. Axel
Gosseries is a Maitre de recherches at the Fonds de la Recherche
Scientifique, Professor at the University of Louvain, Franz Weyr
Fellow of the Czech Academy of Sciences, and Distinguished Visiting
Professor at the Institute for
Future Studies, Stockholm. He is the author of Penser la justice
entre les générations (2004) and the co-editor of Intergenerational
Justice (OUP, 2009, with Lukas Meyer). He has published numerous
papers in philosophy, law, and economics journals, including the
Journal of Political Philosophy, Politics, Philosophy & Economics,
Loyola of Los Angeles Law Review, New York University Environmental
Law Journal,
International Economic Review, Economics & Philosophy, and the
Journal of Environmental Economics and Management.
This excellent collection of essays is devoted to the diagnosis and
especially therapy of what is widely considered a flaw of current
Western democracies: shorttermism- i.e., the prioritization of
present over future benefits. [...] All in all, the contributions
in this book are original, instructive, and exciting to read,
especially given the urgency and seriousness of the subject
matter.
*Vuko Andric, Universität Bayreuth, Erkenntnis*
wIñigo González-Ricoy and Axel Gosseries, the editors, deserve much
praise from the outset for their laudable service of putting
together what is (to my knowledge) the latest and to date perhaps
most comprehensive volume on institutional responses to the
widespread problem of "short-termism". ... this volume does an
excellent service to students and scholars of intergenerational
justice alike, and one can only hope that it will find many
vigilant and engaged readers.
*Markus Rutsche, Intergenerational Justice Review*
Excellent collection of essays ... the contributions in this book
are original, instructive, and exciting to read, especially given
the urgency and seriousness of the subject matter. The introduction
and the contributions in part two equip the reader with the
knowledge necessary to form a qualified opinion on the
institutional changes proposed in parts three and four. Moreover,
as I have argued, there is at least one package of proposed changes
that promises to remedy short-termism and brings along other gains
in terms of democracy and justice.
*Vuko Andric, Erkenntnis*
Perhaps the main flaw of democratic governments is that periodical
elections induce a short time horizon and make it politically risky
for governments to undertake projects that take a long time to
mature. Measures for climate change abatement are the paradigmatic
case. Even worse, in many modern governments, the actual and
expected turnover of ministers is so high that their time horizon
is truncated over and above the normal shortening effect produced
by the electoral cycle. This path-breaking volume is the first to
address this issue in its full depth and complexity.
*Professor Jon Elster, Columbia University*
One of the most important issues we face today is whether, to what
extent, and how to address the interests of future generations.
Much of the philosophical literature has considered this issue only
from the perspective of moral principles. This excellent
collection, with essays by leading scholars, considers the issue
from the perspective of institutional design. The proposals ranging
from a world climate bank to youth quotas on representative bodies
to the management of pension funds -- are innovative, well
considered and important. This volume will be of value not only to
philosophers, but also policy analysts, economists and, indeed,
anyone concerned with the quality of the lives yet to come.
*Professor Debra Satz, Stanford University*
The short-sightedness of elected governments is easily lamented.
The hard part is figuring out what to do about it. This book
represents the most systematic consideration to date of the
prospects for designing political institutions to induce more
future-oriented policymaking. The volume combines sharp analysis of
the sources of short-termism in democratic politics with careful
evaluation of institutional devices that might correct democracy's
biases toward the present. Blending normative theory with
political, psychological, economic, and legal analysis, this book
offers a wide-ranging and thought-provoking exploration of one of
the deepest challenges of democratic governance.
*Professor Alan M. Jacobs, University of British Columbia*
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