- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Acknowledgements
- List of Figures and Tables
- List of Contributors
- 1 Designing Institutions for Future Generations
- 2 Institutional Design and Sources of Short-Termism
- 3 Intergenerational Justice
- 4 Measuring Intergenerational Fairness
- 5 Can we Represent Future Generations?
- 6 Generational Sovereignty
- 7 An Ombudsman for Future Generations
- 8 Political Institutions for the Future
- 9 A World Climate Bank
- 10 Constitutionalizing Intergenerational Provisions
- 11 Democratic Trusteeship
- 12 A Common Heritage Fund for Future Generations
- 13 Electoral Design, Sub-Majority Rules, and Representation for Future Generations
- 14 Philanthropy and Intergenerational Justice
- 15 The Deliberative Democratic Inclusion of Future Generations
- 16 Youth Quotas, Diversity, and Long-Termism
- 17 A General-Purpose, Randomly Selected Chamber
- 18 Piloting Responsibility and Intergenerational Justice
- 19 The People’s Endowment
- 20 Democratic Firms
- 21 Archiving for the Future
- 22 Alumni Involvement and Long-Termist University Governance
- 23 Pension Funds, Future Generations, and Fiduciary Duty
- 24 Family Planning is Not (Necessarily) the Priority Institution for Reducing Fertility
- Index
Piloting Responsibility and Intergenerational Justice
Piloting Responsibility and Intergenerational Justice
- Chapter:
- (p.299) 18 Piloting Responsibility and Intergenerational Justice
- Source:
- Institutions For Future Generations
- Author(s):
Claudio López-Guerra
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
Representative democracies have not lived up to the promise of creating a communion of interests between the rulers and the ruled. Elected officials lack adequate incentives to properly look after the interests of citizens—especially future citizens. The prospect of losing the next election is, on the grand scale of things, relatively trivial: a simple career setback that even vicious rulers can often avoid. To create a stronger communion of interests between the rulers and the citizens, both present and future, politicians ought to have a larger stake in the consequences of their own decisions. This chapter makes the case for a novel proposal to this effect.
Keywords: democracy, representation, future generations, political institutions, justice
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- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Acknowledgements
- List of Figures and Tables
- List of Contributors
- 1 Designing Institutions for Future Generations
- 2 Institutional Design and Sources of Short-Termism
- 3 Intergenerational Justice
- 4 Measuring Intergenerational Fairness
- 5 Can we Represent Future Generations?
- 6 Generational Sovereignty
- 7 An Ombudsman for Future Generations
- 8 Political Institutions for the Future
- 9 A World Climate Bank
- 10 Constitutionalizing Intergenerational Provisions
- 11 Democratic Trusteeship
- 12 A Common Heritage Fund for Future Generations
- 13 Electoral Design, Sub-Majority Rules, and Representation for Future Generations
- 14 Philanthropy and Intergenerational Justice
- 15 The Deliberative Democratic Inclusion of Future Generations
- 16 Youth Quotas, Diversity, and Long-Termism
- 17 A General-Purpose, Randomly Selected Chamber
- 18 Piloting Responsibility and Intergenerational Justice
- 19 The People’s Endowment
- 20 Democratic Firms
- 21 Archiving for the Future
- 22 Alumni Involvement and Long-Termist University Governance
- 23 Pension Funds, Future Generations, and Fiduciary Duty
- 24 Family Planning is Not (Necessarily) the Priority Institution for Reducing Fertility
- Index
