The British Academy Brian Barry Prize Essay: Representing the Future: The Interests of Future Persons in Representative Democracy
| Autor: | Andre Santos Campos |
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| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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Class (computer programming)
Sociology and Political Science media_common.quotation_subject 05 social sciences 06 humanities and the arts 0603 philosophy ethics and religion Democracy 0506 political science Representation (politics) Representative democracy Politics Political science 060302 philosophy 050602 political science & public administration Affect (linguistics) media_common Law and economics |
| Zdroj: | British Journal of Political Science. 51:1-15 |
| ISSN: | 1469-2112 0007-1234 |
| DOI: | 10.1017/s000712341900067x |
| Popis: | As a reaction against contemporary democracy's inherent short-sightedness in solving problems that are likely to affect distant future generations, there has been a recent increase in proposals for different kinds of democratic representation of future persons. This article shows that even though there can be no such thing as political representation of future persons, the relevant affected interests of the as-yet unborn can still be taken into consideration in political decision making. This aim is achieved by focusing on the political representation of children as special cases of semi-future members of the class of the represented. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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