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In the Long Run: The Future as a Political Idea

In the Long Run: The Future as a Political Idea

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In the Long Run: How Politics Went Out of Date and What We Can Do About It by Jonathan White is a history of the future that urges us to make tomorrow new again. It explores how politics has been directed by shifting visions of the future, from ideologies in the nineteenth century to Cold War secrecy and neoliberalism. White argues that a political commitment to the long-term may be the best way to safeguard democracy.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 272 pages
Publication date: 16 January 2025
Publisher: Profile Books Ltd


Democracy is future-oriented and self-correcting, with today's problems being solved in tomorrow's elections. However, the biggest issues facing the modern world, from climate collapse and pandemics to recession and world war, each 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.

Weight: 224g
Dimension: 127 x 198 x 19 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781800812321
Edition number: Main

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