Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. Introduction: Facing the Democratic Temporal Puzzle 1
4. PART I: DEMOCRACY AND THE LONG-TERM VIEW
5. 1 Multitemporal Democracy: The Balance Between the Short Term and the Long Term 27
6. 2 Bringing the Future into the Present: The Legitimacy Gap in Non-Overlapping Contexts 52
7. PART II: THE SEMI-FUTURE POLITY
8. 3 The Semi-Future Temporal Order: A Novel Form of Presentism 101
9. 4 Semi-Future Representation: Justifying Responsiveness to Objective Interests in the Future 137
10. 5 Semi-Future Accountability: The Ways of Responsibility and Reflexivity Towards the Future 158
11. 6 Semi-Future Policymaking: The Implementation of Long-Term Democratic Governance 178
12. Epilogue: Future-Oriented Democratic Theory 203
13. Acknowledgements 207
14. Bibliography 209
15. Index 233