Aprrs Nous Le DDluge? Direct Democracy and Intergenerational Conflicts in Aging Societies

Ahlfeldt, Gabriel M.; Maennig, Wolfgang; Steenbeck, Malte

doi:10.2139/ssrn.2973299

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2016

DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.2973299

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Aprrs Nous Le DDluge? Direct Democracy and Intergenerational Conflicts in Aging Societies

Gabriel M. Ahlfeldt

Wolfgang Maennig

Malte Steenbeck

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“…Two recent studies of 305 Swiss and 82 international referenda offer strong prima facie support to the idea that age is correlated with preferences for more short-termist policy. These studies, conducted by Gabriel Ahlfeldt and colleagues, categorize the answers to referenda questions according to the generational interests that they most promote (young vs elderly), analyzing the extent to which younger and older voters support referenda decisions that are in their generational self-interest, and come away with the strong conclusion that referenda "voters make deliberate choices that maximize their expected utility conditional on their stage in the lifecycle" (Ahlfeldt et al 2016(Ahlfeldt et al , 2018. They find that younger voters "tend to be less conservative, attach higher priorities to the protection of the environment, and are more supportive of policies that, in relative terms, benefit the young."…”

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Empowering Future People by Empowering the Young

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2021

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A number of recent writers have argued that the obligations of modern states to people who will exist in the future may far outstrip their obligations to their present citizens, given the vast number of people who will exist in the future and whose livelihoods depend on our actions (Beckstead 2013, Greaves and MacAskill 2019, John 2020, Tarsney 2019. And yet modern states do precious little on behalf of future generations, choosing to allow and incentivize destructive practices such as the widespread burning of fossil fuels, while failing to take preventative measures that could deter global pandemics and other catastrophes.The state is plagued with problems of political short-termism: the excessive priority given to near-term benefits at the cost of future ones (González-Ricoy and Gosseries 2016B). By the accounts of many political scientists and economists, political leaders rarely look beyond the next 2-5 years and into the problems of the next decade.There are many reasons for this, from time preference (Frederick et al 2002, Jacobs and

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Which Countries Bid for the Olympic Games? Economic, Political, and Social Factors and Chances of Winning

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This contribution analyzes 132 factors on their potential to discriminate countries bidding for hosting the Olympic Games from non-bidding countries. Our binary, clustered model using generalized estimating equations (GEE) shows that countries recording long-term economic growth and pursuing a liberalization and globalization policy will consider an Olympic bid. In addition, countries with an urban population above 10 million, with stable election results and an improvement in health standards as well as more attractive tourism destinations are more likely to bid for the Olympic Games. Finally, the bid decision is shaped by experience in hosting major sports events, a country and regional rotation, persistence and climatic conditions.

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