Advancing Future-Orientation in Policymaking: Institutions, Individuals and Risks (Routledge Research on Social and Political Elites) - Hardcover

Koskimaa, Vesa; Rapeli, Lauri

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1032055480 ISBN 13: 9781032055480

Publisher: Routledge, 2024

Synopsis

This book argues that, under certain societal and institutional conditions, party-, interest group- and bureaucracy-based elites can interact positively to extend political timeframes beyond short electoral terms and foster reasoned long-term planning for democratic decision-making.

Focusing on Finland within a broader analytic framework and comparative context, it unearths institutions and practices that give the elites capacity to curtail democratic short-sightedness and offer long-term solutions for contemporary threats such as economic globalization, climate change and geopolitical competition. The study also reveals factors that condition the operative capacity of futureregarding institutions.

This book will be of key interest to scholars, students and practitioners of political science, public policy and administration, elites and management and futures studies.

The Open Access version of this book, available at www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non- Commercial (CC-BY-NC) 4.0 license.

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About the Author

Vesa Koskimaa is Senior Research Fellow at the Politics Unit of the Faculty of Management and Business, Tampere University, Finland.

Lauri Rapeli is Professor at The Social Science Research Institute, Åbo Akademi University, Finland.

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2024
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1032055480
• ISBN 13: 9781032055480
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 180