Futures studies and public decision in Sweden

Paillard, Sandrine

doi:10.1016/j.futures.2005.04.004

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“…Little has been written about how foresight and management can be brought closer together and how the mixture of the two can be utilized to produce plausible, probable and preferable images of the future (e.g. [6,[11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20]). We believe that this is due to a limited understanding of the nature of the divide between both worlds, which is -as we will argue here -much more fundamental than the existing literature acknowledges (see also: [6,7,20]).…”

Section: Integrating Futures Studies and Organizational Strategymentioning

confidence: 99%

Integrating futures studies with organizational development: Design options for the scenario project ‘RWS2020’

Steen

Twist

Vlist

et al. 2011

Futures

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Section: Integrating Futures Studies and Organizational Strategymentioning

confidence: 99%

Integrating futures studies with organizational development: Design options for the scenario project ‘RWS2020’

Steen

Twist

Vlist

et al. 2011

Futures

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“…Where orthodox planning may seek to assess different options in order to arrive at an optimum process and outcome [2], strategic foresight is most potent when not only seeking to extend the realm of possible futures, but also deepening understandings of how futures can be realised and the values and interests that support particular visions of the future [10,24]. This opening up of the future is not always well understood or welcomed and may go some way to explaining the relatively limited take up of foresight work by policy-makers [18,[25][26][27][28].…”

Section: The Future and Policy Makingmentioning

confidence: 99%

An examination of independent fiscal councils and their orientation to the future and policy making

Connor

2017

Eur J Futures Res

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The aim of this paper is to review the rationale, nature and operation of independent fiscal councils (IFCs) in order to gain insights into how futures are being configured at executive levels of government and to examine how futures could be incorporated in policy making. The emphasis IFCs have placed on non-partisanship, transparency and forecasting is viewed as reflecting a particular understanding of the problem of public debt and a limited understanding of the future and policy making. Located within the context of increasing technocratic tendencies, it is argued that IFCs can be seen as part of efforts to secure the depoliticisation of policy making. Attempts to secure the de-politicisation of policy making may at best, be considered laudable, but naïve, and at worst, represents an ideological sleight of hand in attempts to colonise the future. Moving forward, it is argued that strategic foresight can make a vital contribution to an open form of policy making that deepens and extends an understanding of what the future could be -the necessary ficta of policy making.

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“…Young politicians in Germany have formed a cross-party alliance for introducing constitutional constraints on government decisions, etc. In our own country, Sweden future studies have been an integrated part of policy formation since the early 1970s (see [6]). …”

Section: Existing Responsesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The fact is that in any economy those who produce must abstain from consuming some of their surplus if those unable to produce their own consumption are to survive. 6 Intergenerational transfer systems are therefore necessary ingredients in any functional society and which will need to adapt changes in the age distribution. Ageing therefore requires an adaptation of this redistribution system.…”

Section: Ageing Sets the Scenementioning

confidence: 99%