The Future as a Democratic Resource

Dados Bibliográficos

ID6324428
AutoresJonathan White (0000-0002-4668-698X, autor correspondente)
Ano2025
Páginas1-13
Data de publicação2025-03-24
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoPerspectives on Politics (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1537-5927 • E-ISSN: 1541-0986
EditoraCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s1537592724002871
OpenAlexW4408767588
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas5
Referências citadas56

Beliefs about the future shape attitudes, experiences, and priorities in the present. This article explores the relationship between democracy and the expected world to come. As it argues, visions of the future are an important resource for democratic politics, putting the present in critical perspective, aiding in the formation of a collective agent, and consolidating commitment in adversity. Indirectly, they contribute also to the legitimacy of democratic institutions, shaping the exercise of citizenship and the capacity to contend with the flaws of representation. The democratic significance of the imagined future becomes even more visible in today’s age of skepticism toward future-regarding politics, in which speculative modes of thinking run up against the desire for certainty and precision

Democracy · Economics · Natural resource economics · Political science · Politics · Resource (disambiguation · 21st Century Education and Governance · Computer Science · Law