The Deliberative Democratic Inclusion of Future Generations

Niemeyer, Simon; Jennstål, Julia

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“…While more systematic analysis of the temporal orientation of DMPs is needed, evidence from the practice of DMPs suggests that they outperform more traditional democratic institutions in orientating participants to consider long-term implications, often in areas where preferences are not well formed (Hobson and Niemeyer, 2011; MacKenzie and Warren, 2012; Niemeyer and Jennstål, 2017; Parkhill et al, 2013).…”

Section: Designing Participation For the Long Term: The Promise Of Dementioning

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“…Such conditions are particularly apposite for encouraging considered judgment (Smith, 2009) or collective intelligence (Landemore, 2013) that is sensitive to the interests of future generations. Where DMPs are tasked to consider aspects of long-term policy making, questions of intergenerational equity are made salient to participants and they have time and space to reflect on the long-term consequences of social choices, informed by the variety of perspectives offered by fellow participants (Niemeyer and Jennstål, 2017: 248). As Michael MacKenzie (2012: 165) argues: “any short-sighted claims that are self-serving at the expense of future publics are weaker claims for that very reason, and can thus be challenged or rejected on those grounds in robust deliberative environments” (see also MacKenzie, 2018; Smith, 2003).…”

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Enhancing the Legitimacy of Offices for Future Generations: The Case for Public Participation

Smith

2019

Political Studies

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Independent offices for future generations are rare among institutional designs that aim to ameliorate short-termism in democracies. Drawing on the experience of offices for future generations in Israel, Hungary, and Wales, the article argues that such institutions face at least three challenges to their legitimacy: first, the capacity of an unelected agency to constrain government and law-making; second, the ability of a single office to adequately represent the plurality of interests within and across future generations; and third, their political fragility and vulnerability. The article develops the counterintuitive argument that offices for future generations can enhance their democratic legitimacy through embedding systematic public participation in their activities, in particular through the institutionalization of deliberative mini-publics.

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Section: Designing Participation For the Long Term: The Promise Of Dementioning

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Enhancing the Legitimacy of Offices for Future Generations: The Case for Public Participation

Smith

2019

Political Studies

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“…It is possible to apply social-scientific methods, from a Q methodology to historical or ethnographic analysis, to identify all of the relevant discourses. 16 Simon Niemeyer and Julia Jennstål (2016) aim to develop a similar form of inclusion, based on the discursive representation of future generations and their interests. Such designed representations of discourses, they argue, may take a formal or an informal character.…”

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Towards Intersectional Democratic Innovations

Wojciechowska

2019

Political Studies

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While scholarship on intersectionality has emphasised the need to go beyond single categories of identity, like gender or race, intersectionality has not been considered to date within the literature on democratic innovations, even though enhancing inclusion is a key aim of such institutions. This article overcomes this gap. It analyses tools of inclusion within democratic innovations and argues they are not responsive to intersectionality claims. This article shows that current democratic innovations are explicitly exclusionary towards the groups which need the attention of the democratic scholars the most. To address this problem, this article argues for a move away from advocating for single or 'one-off' acts of inclusion and towards a more direct focus on facilitating leadership of the disempowered and diversification of the contexts of democratic innovations. Such changes can increase the sensitivity of democratic innovations but can also facilitate a wider social change.

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“…What matters is that the actions inherent in the exercise of government purport to be representative of far-future interests. Examples can be found in the claim to have present surrogates to vindicate the interests of future persons (Ekeli 2006;Karnein 2016) or to include future generations in the communicative processes of deliberative democracies (Beyleveld, Düwell and Spahn 2015;Eckersley 2011;Goodin 1996;Niemeyer and Jennstål 2016). 1 Critics of the association between political representation and as-yet unborn persons argue that the interests of future generations could find their way onto the political agenda more effectively by employing different normative concepts.…”

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The British Academy Brian Barry Prize Essay: Representing the Future: The Interests of Future Persons in Representative Democracy

Campos

2020

Brit. J. Polit. Sci.

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As a reaction against contemporary democracy's inherent short-sightedness in solving problems that are likely to affect distant future generations, there has been a recent increase in proposals for different kinds of democratic representation of future persons. This article shows that even though there can be no such thing as political representation of future persons, the relevant affected interests of the as-yet unborn can still be taken into consideration in political decision making. This aim is achieved by focusing on the political representation of children as special cases of semi-future members of the class of the represented.

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The Deliberative Democratic Inclusion of Future Generations

Cited by 8 publications

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Enhancing the Legitimacy of Offices for Future Generations: The Case for Public Participation

Enhancing the Legitimacy of Offices for Future Generations: The Case for Public Participation

Towards Intersectional Democratic Innovations

The British Academy Brian Barry Prize Essay: Representing the Future: The Interests of Future Persons in Representative Democracy

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