Paying for the future: deliberation and support for climate action policies

MacKenzie, Michael K.; Caluwaerts, Didier

doi:10.1080/1523908x.2021.1883424

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“…In other words, there seems to be a potential in deliberation to make citizens accept some burdens, including tax increases, for the benefit future generations. This finding suggests that de-liberation can help evoke sense of intergenerational fairness and make more sustainable policy choices, which is in line with findings by MacKenzie and Caluwaerts [24]. However, the results regarding the flood protection question suggest that democratic deliberation does not necessarily increase present generations' willingness to make altruistic sacrifices in intergenerational conflicts.…”

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confidence: 84%

“…Obviously, mini-publics are just one possible remedy to the problem of short-termism in representative politics. Moreover, there are open questions regarding the possible roles of mini-publics or other randomly selected bodies in representative democracies [6,24].…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Setälä et al [10] show that participation in a deliberative mini-public can increase participants' belief in collective action to resolve societal problems and their willingness to participate in such collective action. In a more recent study, MacKenzie and Caluwaerts [24] find that deliberative practices can be used to encourage climate action policies, which are highly relevant to the interests of future generations. Based on a large-scale deliberation experiment they show that deliberation make participants more supportive of policies that help mitigate climate change and more willing to make personal sacrifices, such as paying higher gas taxes.…”

Section: Theory: Why Deliberation Might Enhance Thinking and Caring About Future Generationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Despite these reservations, drawing on the assumptions of deliberative theory together with findings by Setälä et al [4] and MacKenzie and Caluwaerts [24], we form the following hypothesis regarding the effects of deliberation to participants' willingness to take future generations' interests into account and even make sacrifices to ensure those interests.…”

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confidence: 99%

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For the Sake of the Future: Can Democratic Deliberation Help Thinking and Caring about Future Generations?

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This article examines whether democratic deliberation can enhance participants’ capacity to consider future generations’ perspectives and willingness to make sacrifices to ensure their well-being. In addition to normal deliberation, we are interested in the effects of a mental time travel exercise where deliberators imagine themselves in the future (without ageing). The study is based on an experiment conducted as a part of Citizens’ Assembly that contributed to the long-term planning of the Satakunta region in Finland. Our findings suggest that deliberation as such increases participants’ willingness to consider future generations’ perspectives in long-term planning; yet the mental time travel exercise had only a modest impact on perspective-taking. The results also show some support for the assumption that deliberation can enhance willingness to make sacrifices for future generations, although we do not see such an impact in case of an intergenerational conflict in flood protection.

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Section: Theory: Why Deliberation Might Enhance Thinking and Caring About Future Generationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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For the Sake of the Future: Can Democratic Deliberation Help Thinking and Caring about Future Generations?

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“…While we have argued and showed that future-oriented political thinking is normatively desirable and an empirically measurable concept, the question of how to foster it remains outside the scope of this article. There is some evidence that citizen deliberation in so called minipublics can increase consideration of future generations' perspectives in long-term planning (Kulha et al, 2021;MacKenzie and Caluwaerts, 2021), but the role of political socialization or education, for example, remains to be studied.…”

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When do You Want It? Determinants of Future-Oriented Political Thinking

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Many studies have examined whether citizens prefer direct or stealth democracy, or participatory democratic processes. This study adds to the emerging literature that instead examines the temporal aspect of citizens’ process preferences. We use a survey with a probabilistic sample of the Finnish voting-age population (n = 1,906), which includes a measure of the extent to which citizens think democratic decision-making should maximize welfare today or ensure future well-being. Calling this dimension of democratic process preferences future-oriented political thinking, we demonstrate that people hold different but consistent views regarding the extent to which democratic politics should balance between present and future benefits. We find that future-oriented political thinking is linked to general time orientation, but the linkage varies across respondent groups. Politically sophisticated individuals are less future-oriented, suggesting that intense cognitive engagement with politics is linked with a focus on present-day politics rather than political investment in the future.

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Political long‐termism and the European Union: Five research questions for the future

Leruth

2024

Contemporary European Politics

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This article introduces the concept of political long‐termism, defined as the conscious choice to prioritise the future consequences of today's political actions over their short‐term benefits and emphasises its relevance in the realm of European Studies. It contends that the European Union (EU), in theory, possesses the potential to address creeping crises more effectively than its member states, while acknowledging the varying degrees of support for political long‐termism within different EU institutions. The article advocates for additional research to explore the EU and international organisations' role in fostering political long‐termism, an area that has seen limited empirical investigation. To do so, it proposes five research questions as a starting point to establish political long‐termism as a subdiscipline of European Studies. As such, it aims to set the agenda by shedding light on the intertemporal aspect of EU politics.

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Paying for the future: deliberation and support for climate action policies

Cited by 18 publications

References 33 publications

For the Sake of the Future: Can Democratic Deliberation Help Thinking and Caring about Future Generations?

For the Sake of the Future: Can Democratic Deliberation Help Thinking and Caring about Future Generations?

When do You Want It? Determinants of Future-Oriented Political Thinking

Political long‐termism and the European Union: Five research questions for the future

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