Advancing Future-Orientation in Policymaking

Institutions, Individuals and Risks
1. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-1-032-05548-0
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 180 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 440 g

Reihe: Routledge Research on Social and Political Elites

This book argues that, under certain societal and institutional conditions, party-, interest group- and bureaucracy-based elites can interact positively to extend political timeframes beyond short electoral terms and foster reasoned long-term planning for democratic decision-making.

Focusing on Finland within a broader analytic framework and comparative context, it unearths institutions and practices that give the elites capacity to curtail democratic short-sightedness and offer long-term solutions for contemporary threats such as economic globalization, climate change and geopolitical competition. The study also reveals factors that condition the operative capacity of futureregarding institutions.

This book will be of key interest to scholars, students and practitioners of political science, public policy and administration, elites and management and futures studies.

The Open Access version of this book, available at www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non- Commercial (CC-BY-NC) 4.0 license.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate and Undergraduate Advanced

Autoren/Hrsg.

Koskimaa, Vesa

Rapeli, Lauri

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Interessengruppen, Lobbyismus und Protestbewegungen
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Studien zu einzelnen Ländern und Gebieten
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Demokratie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction: Seeking legitimate remedies for democratic myopia  2. Analytical framework: Curbing democratic myopia with elite cooperation  3. Society and institutions: Forging capacities for future-regarding governance  4. Making future-regarding policies: Institutional capacities and operational conditions  5. The personal time orientations of policymakers  6. Main findings, conclusions and discussion

Über Autor(innen)

Vesa Koskimaa is Senior Research Fellow at the Politics Unit of the Faculty of Management and Business, Tampere University, Finland.

Lauri Rapeli is Professor at The Social Science Research Institute, Åbo Akademi University, Finland.