Institutions For Future Generations
1st Edition
Published on 15. December 2016
432 pages
978-0-19-106397-8 (ISBN)
Description
In times of climate change and public debt, a concern for intergenerational justice should lead us to have a closer look at theories of intergenerational justice. It should also press us to provide institutional design proposals to change the decision-making world that surrounds us.
This book provides an exhaustive overview of the most important institutional proposals as well as a systematic and theoretical discussion of their respective features and advantages. It focuses on institutional proposals aimed at taking the interests of future generations more seriously, and does so from the perspective of applied political philosophy, being explicit about the underlying normative choices and the latest developments in the social sciences. It provides citizens, activists, firms, charities, public authorities, policy-analysts, students, and academics with the body of knowledge necessary to understand what our institutional options are and what they entail if we are concerned about today's excessive short-termism.
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Iñigo González-Ricoy is Assistant Professor of Political Philosophy at the University of Barcelona. He has been postdoctoral fellow at the University of Louvain and Pompeu Fabra University and visiting fellow at Columbia University and Goethe University in Frankfurt. His research is in democratic and constitutional theory, and has been published in the Journal of Applied Philosophy, Social Theory and Practice, and Ratio Juris.
Axel Gosseries is a Maitre de recherches at the Fonds de la Recherche Scientifique, Professor at the University of Louvain, Franz Weyr Fellow of the Czech Academy of Sciences, and Distinguished Visiting Professor at the Institute for Future Studies, Stockholm. He is the author of Penser la justice entre les générations (2004) and the co-editor of Intergenerational Justice (OUP, 2009, with Lukas Meyer). He has published numerous papers in philosophy, law, and economics journals, including the Journal of Political Philosophy, Politics, Philosophy & Economics, Loyola of Los Angeles Law Review, New York University Environmental Law Journal, International Economic Review, Economics & Philosophy, and the Journal of Environmental Economics and Management.
Content
- PART 1: INTRODUCTORY CHAPTERS
- 1: Iñigo González-Ricoy and Axel Gosseries: Designing Institutions for Future Generations: An Introduction
- Institutional Design and Sources of Short-Termism
- PART 2 GENERAL TOOLS AND ISSUES
- 3: Nicholas Vrousalis: Intergenerational Justice: a Primer
- 4: Stéphane Zuber: Measuring Intergenerational Fairness
- 5: Anja Karnein: Can We Represent Future Generations?
- 6: Axel Gosseries: Generational Sovereignty
- PART 3 FUTURE-FOCUSED INSTITUTIONS
- 7: Ludvig Beckman and Fredrik Uggla: The Ombudsman for Future Generations: Legitimate and Effective?
- 8: Simon Caney: Political Institutions for the Future: A Five-Fold Package
- 9: John Broome and Duncan K. Foley: A World Climate Bank
- 10: Iñigo González-Ricoy: Constitutionalising Intergenerational Provisions
- 11: Dennis F. Thompson: Democratic Trusteeship: Institutions to Protect the Future of the Democratic Process
- 12: Marcel Szabo: A Common Heritage Fund for Future Generations
- 13: Kristian Skagen Ekeli: Electoral Design, Sub-Majority Rules and Representation for Future Generations
- 14: Chiara Cordelli and Rob Reich: Philanthropy and Intergenerational Justice
- PART 4 FUTURE-BENEFICIAL INSTITUTIONS
- 15: Simon Niemeyer and Julia Jennstål: The Deliberative Democratic Inclusion of Future Generations
- 16: Juliana Bidadanure: Youth Quotas, Diversity, and Long-Termism: Can Young People Act as Proxies for Future Generations?
- 17: Michael K. MacKenzie: A General-Purpose, Randomly Selected Chamber
- 18: Claudio López-Guerra: Pilotage Responsibility and Intergenerational Justice
- 19: Karl Widerquist: The People's Endowment
- 20: Virginie Pérotin: Democratic Firms: Assets for the Long-Term
- 21: Jonathan White: Archiving for the Future: the Party Constitution
- 22: Danielle Zwarthoed: Alumni Involvement and Long-Termist University Governance
- 23: Joakim Sandberg: Pension Funds, Future Generations, and Fiduciary Duty
- 24: Thomas Baudin and Paula Gobbi: Family Planning is Not (Necessarily) the Priority Institution for Reducing Fertility
