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In the Long Run
Jonathan White
其他書名
The Future as a Political Idea
出版Profile Books Limited, 2024
主題Political Science / GeneralPolitical Science / Political Ideologies / DemocracyPolitical Science / Comparative Politics
ISBN18008123029781800812307
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=yBPMzgEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋Democracy is future-oriented and self-correcting: today's problems can be solved, we are told, in tomorrow's elections. But the biggest issues facing the modern world - from climate collapse and pandemics to recession and world war - each apparently bring us to the edge of the irreversible. What happens to democracy when the future seems no longer open?In this eye-opening history of ideas, Jonathan White investigates how politics has long been directed by shifting visions of the future, from the birth of ideologies in the nineteenth century to Cold War secrecy and the excesses of the neoliberal age.As an inescapable sense of disaster defines our politics, White argues that a political commitment to the long-term may be the best way to safeguard democracy. Wide in scope and sharply observed, In the Long Run is a history of the future that urges us to make tomorrow new again.