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Title: Can Democracy Safeguard the Future?
Author: SMITH GRAHAM
Format: PAPERBACK
Imprint: POLITY
Price: $20.95
Publishing status: Active
Our democracies repeatedly fail to safeguard the future. From pensions to pandemics, health and social care through to climate, biodiversity and emerging technologies, democracies have been unable to deliver robust policies for the long term.
In this book, Graham Smith asks why. Exploring the drivers of short-termism, he considers ways of reshaping legislatures and constitutions and proposes strengthening independent offices whose overarching goals do not change at every election. More radically, Smith argues that forms of participatory and deliberative politics offer the most effective democratic response to the current political myopia, as well as a powerful means of protecting the interests of generations to come.
Series: Democratic Futures
ISBN: 9781509539253
Weight: 154g
Dimension: 192mm X 127mm
Pages: 160