Designing Institutions for Future Generations

González‐Ricoy, Iñigo; Gosseries, Axel

doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198746959.003.0001

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“…Knowing of the risks, governments have not been inactive. Indeed, across the OECD multiple remedies have been proposed and many implemented (Boston, 2017a(Boston, , 2017bGonzález-Ricoy and Gosseries, 2016). For instance, in some cases important decisions have been deliberately delegated to independent bodies -ones that are expected to be less influenced than elected officials by short-term political pressures.…”

Section: The Politics Of Timementioning

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Enhancing long-term governance

Boston¹,

Bagnall²,

Barry³

2020

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This article explores how the New Zealand Parliament scrutinises the quality of long-term governance and considers how such scrutiny could be made more systematic, proactive and rigorous. The analysis is based, among other things, on extensive interviews with current and former MPs and other active participants in the policy process. Interviewees were generally critical of the existing system of parliamentary scrutiny: it was variously described as ‘weak’, ‘inadequate’, ‘cursory’, ‘patchy’ and ‘unduly partisan’. Scrutiny of long-term matters – such as governments’ strategies, foresight, planning and risk management – was seen as inferior, on average, to other forms of scrutiny, especially the scrutiny of legislation. Drawing on the suggestions of interviewees and the experience of legislatures in several other parliamentary democracies, we outline and assess various options for parliamentary reform.

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Section: The Politics Of Timementioning

confidence: 99%

Enhancing long-term governance

Boston¹,

Bagnall²,

Barry³

2020

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“…Second, the literature in democratic theory, which over the last two decades has experienced a “representative turn” toward inspecting nontraditional forms of representation (Näsström, ; Urbinati & Warren, ), has recently focused on the representation of generations to come, and the appropriate means to institutionalize it (Beckman, ; Ekeli, ; Karnein, ; Saward, ; Thompson, ; Zwarthoed, ). Third, numerous polities have experimented with instruments to represent future people in recent decades, which has accordingly spurred considerable empirical and theoretical literature (Boston, ; González‐Ricoy & Gosseries, ; Jones, O'Brein & Ryan, ; Tremmel, ). Before surveying existing and proposed instruments to this effect, in this section, we outline the grounds on which representation of future generations has been championed and the main difficulties it has encountered.…”

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“…To this effect, a wealth of reforms have been advocated, and in some cases adopted, in recent decades. They include, inter alia, independent offices with an environmental mandate, such as the Hungarian Commissioner for Future Generations or the proposal for a UN High Commissioner for Future Generations submitted to Rio+20; climate litigation on behalf of future generations, which courts in Philippines, Chile, or the Netherlands have authorized; parliamentary commissions for future generations, such as the Finnish Committee for the Future; and environmental NGOs, think tanks, and other associations, such as the World Future Council, that often claim to represent and further the interests of future individuals (Boston, ; González‐Ricoy & Gosseries, ; United Nations, ).…”

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Enfranchising the future: Climate justice and the representation of future generations

González‐Ricoy

Rey

2019

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Representing unborn generations to more suitably include future interests in today's climate policymaking has sparked much interest in recent years. In this review we survey the main proposed instruments to achieve this effect, some of which have been attempted in polities such as Israel, Philippines, Wales, Finland, and Chile. We first review recent normative work on the idea of representing future people in climate governance: The grounds on which it has been advocated, and the main difficulties that traditional forms of representation have encountered when applied to this particular case. We then survey existing institutional means to represent generations to come. We separate out representation in courts, in parliament, and by independent bodies, and review specific instruments including climate litigation, parliamentary commissions, future representatives, youth quotas, and independent offices for future generations. We examine the particular forms whereby each of these may suitably represent future people, including audience representation, surrogate representation, and indicative representation, and discuss the main challenges they encounter in so doing. This article is categorized under: Climate, Nature, and Ethics > Climate Change and Human Rights

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“…The intergenerational sustainability dilemma (hereafter, ISD) is a situation where individuals choose to maximize (or sacrifice) their benefits without (for) considering future generations, compromising (maintaining) intergenerational sustainability (hereafter, IS) [1,2]. Democracy and capitalism are two main institutions that have been adopted by many countries around the world, while the decision-making process under these institutions does not incorporate the perspective of future generations [3][4][5]. This absence of future generations in the current political system and the unidirectional nature of ISD lead to exploitation of resources by the current generation without considering future ones, causing several IS problems such as the accumulation of public debt, climate change and depletion of natural resources [6][7][8][9][10][11].…”

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Motivational Factors in Intergenerational Sustainability Dilemma: A Post-Interview Analysis

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An intergenerational sustainability dilemma (ISD) is a situation of whether or not a person sacrifices herself for future sustainability. However, little is known about what people consider while making a decision under ISD. This paper analyzes motivational factors for people to decide under ISD, hypothesizing that the factors can be different with or without perspective-taking of future generations. One-person basic ISD game (ISDG) along with post-interviews are instituted where a lineup of individuals is organized as a generational sequence. Each individual chooses an unsustainable (or sustainable) option with (without) irreversibly costing future generations in 36 situations. A future ahead and back (FAB) mechanism is applied as a treatment for perspective-taking of future generations where each individual is asked to take the next generation’s position and to make a request about the choice that he/she wants the current generation to choose, and next, he/she makes the actual decision from the original position. By analyzing the post-interview contents with text-mining techniques, the paper finds that individuals mostly consider how previous generations had behaved in basic ISDG as the main motivational factor. However, individuals in FAB treatment are induced to put more weight on the possible consequences of their decisions for future generations as motivational factors. The findings suggest that perspective-taking of future generations through FAB mechanism enables people to change not only their behaviors but also motivational factors, enhancing ISD.

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Designing Institutions for Future Generations

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Enhancing long-term governance

Enhancing long-term governance

Enfranchising the future: Climate justice and the representation of future generations

Motivational Factors in Intergenerational Sustainability Dilemma: A Post-Interview Analysis

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