Can Democracy Safeguard the Future? Smith Hardback Polity Press 9781509539246

Can Democracy Safeguard the Future?\nby Graham Smith\nHardback\nEnglish\n\nBrand new copy from BookCurl \u2013 the UK independent online bookseller.\n\n------------------------------\nBook details\n------------------------------\nAuthor: Graham Smith\nTitle: Can Democracy Safeguard the Future?\nFormat: Hardback\nLanguage: English\nTopic: Political science and theory\nPublisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd\nPublication year: 2021\nISBN-13: 9781509539246\nISBN-10: 1509539247\n\n------------------------------\nDescription\n------------------------------\n\nOur democracies repeatedly fail to safeguard the future. From pensions to pandemics, health and social care through to climate, biodiversity and emerging technologies, democracies have been unable to deliver robust policies for the long term. \nIn this book, Graham Smith asks why. Exploring the drivers of short-termism, he considers ways of reshaping legislatures and constitutions and proposes strengthening independent offices whose overa.