Institutions for future generations / edited by Inigo Gonzalez-Ricoy and Axel Gosseries.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Designing institutions for future generations : an introduction / Iñigo González-Ricoy and Axel Gosseries -- 2. Institutional design and sources of short-termism / Michael K. MacKenzie -- 3. Intergenerational justice : a primer / Nicholas Vrousalis -- 4. Measuring intergenerational fairness / Stéphane Zuber -- 5. Can we represent future generations? / Anja Karnein -- 6. Generational sovereignty / Axel Gosseries -- 7. An ombudsman for future generations : legitimate and effective? / Ludvig Beckman and Fredrik Uggla -- 8. Political institutions for the future : a fivefold package / Simon Caney -- 9. A world climate bank / John Broome and Duncan K. Foley -- 10. Constitutionalizing intergenerational provisions / Iñigo González-Ricoy -- 11. Democratic trusteeship : institutions to protect the future of the democratic process / Dennis F. Thompson -- 12. A common heritage fund for future generations / Marcel Szabó -- 13. Electoral design, sub-majority rules, and representation for future generations / Kristian Skagen Ekeli -- 14. Philanthropy and intergenerational justice / Chiara Cordelli and Rob Reich -- 15. The deliberative democratic inclusion of future generations / Simon Niemeyer and Julia Jennstål -- 16. Youth quotas, diversity, and long-termism : can young people act as proxies for future generations? / Juliana Bidadanure -- 17. A general-purpose, randomly selected chamber / Michael K. MacKenzie -- 18. Piloting responsibility and intergenerational justice / Claudio López-Guerra -- 19. The people's endowment / Karl Widerquist -- 20. Democratic firms : assets for the long term / Virginie Pérotin -- 21. Archiving for the future : the party constitution / Jonathan White -- 22. Alumni involvement and long-termist university governance / Danielle Zwarthoed -- 22. Pension funds, future generations, and fiduciary duty / Joakim Sandberg -- 24. Family planning is not (necessarily) the priority institution for reducing fertility / Thomas Baudin and Paula Gobbi.

In times of climate change and public debt, a concern for intergenerational justice should lead us to have a closer look at theories of intergenerational justice. It should also press us to provide institutional design proposals to change the decision-making world that surrounds us. This book provides an exhaustive overview of the most important institutional proposals as well as a systematic and theoretical discussion of their respective features and advantages. It focuses on institutional proposals aimed at taking the interests of future generations more seriously, and does so from the perspective of applied political philosophy, being explicit about the underlying normative choices and the latest developments in the social sciences. It provides citizens, activists, firms, charities, public authorities, policy-analysts, students, and academics with the body of knowledge necessary to understand what our institutional options are and what they entail if we are concerned about today's excessive short-termism.