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1 online resource (1 audio file (9hr., 38 min.)) : digital. |
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digital digital recording rda |
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Digital content provided by hoopla. |
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Read by Stephen Bel Davies. |
Summary |
Scholars have often claimed that democracies, whatever their virtues, are functionally short-sighted. The evidence is clear: we have been unable to manage many long-term issues, including climate change, nuclear waste disposal, natural disaster preparedness, infrastructure maintenance, and budget deficits. To solve long-term problems, do we need political systems that are less democratic, or even authoritarian? This idea, which Michael K. MacKenzie calls the "democratic myopia thesis," is a sort of conventional wisdom; it is an idea that scholars and pundits take for granted as a truth about democracy without subjecting it to adequate critical scrutiny. In Future Publics, MacKenzie challenges this conventional wisdom and articulates a deliberative, democratic theory of future-regarding collective action. MacKenzie argues that each part of the democratic myopia problem can be addressed through democratic-rather than authoritarian-means. At a more fundamental level, once we recognize that democratic practices are world-making activities that empower us to make our shared worlds together, they should also be understood as future-making activities. Despite the short-term dynamics associated with electoral democracy, MacKenzie asserts that we need more inclusive and deliberative democracies if we are going to make shared futures that will work for us all. |
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Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
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Democracy -- United States.
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Added Author |
Bel Davies, Stephen.
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hoopla digital.
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ISBN |
9781666167153 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
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1666167150 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
Music No. |
MWT14574058 |
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