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Semi-Future Democracy

A Liberal Theory of the Long-Term View

AvAndre Santos Campos

Häftad, Engelska, 2026

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Traditional institutions are often considered inadequate to govern for the long term as their politicians promote short-term thinking which can harm the future. This book proposes a novel theory of social time perception to address the short-term thinking of traditional institutions which threaten to stifle liberal democracies. The semi-future reconfigures liberal democracies’ franchises, representative instruments, deliberative practices, accountability mechanisms, and policymaking to include in the demos all citizens, regardless of age, and holders of representable objective interests in the future. The result is not only a way to legitimise long-term governance but also to improve the quality of current democracies.

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Utgivningsdatum:2026-05-31
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:288
Förlag:Edinburgh University Press
ISBN:9781399534291

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Andre Santos Campos is a Research Fellow in Political Theory at the Nova University of Lisbon. His research concentrates on issues that connect contemporary political theory with jurisprudence and intellectual history, especially democratic theory and intergenerational justice. He is the author of Spinoza’s Revolutions in Natural Law (2012). He is also the editor of Machiavelli’s Discourses on Livy: New Readings (2021), Sovereignty as Value (2021), Spinoza and Law (Routledge, 2016), Spinoza: Basic Concepts (2015), and Challenges to Democratic Participation (2014). In 2019, he was the recipient of the Brian Barry Prize in Political Science, attributed by The British Academy.

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This is a rich, innovative and important book on the potential for making democratic institutions more sensitive to the interests of future generations. Taking normative commitments to democratic legitimacy seriously, Santos Campos shows how we can avoid myopic electoral politics on the basis of new democratic understandings of time and political representation.

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Introduction: Facing the Democratic Temporal PuzzlePart I – Democracy and the Long-Term ViewChapter 1: Multitemporal Democracy: The Balance Between the Short Term and the Long TermChapter 2: Bringing the Future into the Present: The Legitimacy Gap in Non-Overlapping ContextsPart II – The Semi-Future PolityChapter 3: The Semi-Future Temporal Order: A Novel Form of PresentismChapter 4: Semi-Future Representation: Justifying Responsiveness to Objective Interests in the FutureChapter 5: Semi-Future Accountability: The Ways of Responsibility and Reflexivity Towards the FutureChapter 6: Semi-Future Policymaking: The Implementation of Long-Term Democratic GovernanceEpilogue: Future-Oriented Democratic TheoryAcknowledgementsBibliography