ERC Advanced Grant · 2024
High Speed Society, Slow Motion Democracy, and the Dilemma for Democratic Problem Solving
Social acceleration – the progressively faster rate of technological, social, and life-pace change – has created a challenge for democratic problem solving. The demand for rapid and effective policy solutions is ever-increasing, while democratic politics often fails to keep up with urgent calls for intervention. We live in a high-speed society that is governed by a slow-motion democracy. This poses a fundamental dilemma for democratic problem solving: speed up decision making by circumventing democratic procedures, or hold on to slow procedures at the cost of effective problem solving. Either option could further erode public trust in liberal democracy, whose legitimacy relies on its…
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