Advancing Future-Orientation in Policymaking

<p>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.</p><p>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.</p><p>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.</p><p><b>The Open Access version of this book available at <a href=http://www.taylorfrancis.com>www.taylorfrancis.com</a> has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non- Commercial (CC-BY-NC) 4.0 license. </b></p>