{"product_id":"future-publics-michael-k-mackenzie-9780197557150","title":"Future Publics: Democracy, Deliberation, and Future-Regarding Collective Action","description":"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. If voters and influential actors, such as interest groups and corporations, have dominant short-term interests, it may be difficult for elected politicians to act in the long-term interests of society, even if they think that it would be the right thing to do. To solve long-term problems, do we need political systems that are less democratic, or even authoritarian? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis 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 \u003cem\u003eFuture Publics\u003c\/em\u003e, MacKenzie challenges this conventional wisdom and articulates a deliberative, democratic theory of future-regarding collective action. Specifically, 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Michael K. MacKenzie\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0197557155\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780197557150\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford University Press, USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/25\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 240\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.15lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.40h x 6.20w x 0.90d","brand":"Michael K. MacKenzie","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43982197326079,"sku":"9780197557150","price":82.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_8b631c06-4f58-4ed1-97b3-186588bbae1c.jpg?v=1683259787","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/future-publics-michael-k-mackenzie-9780197557150","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}