Introduction: Facing the Democratic Temporal Puzzle P art I - Democracy and the Long-Term View Chapter 1: Multitemporal Democracy: The Balance Between the Short Term and the Long Term Chapter 2: Bringing the Future into the Present: The Legitimacy Gap in Non-Overlapping Contexts Part II - The Semi-Future Polity Chapter 3: The Semi-Future Temporal Order: A Novel Form of Presentism Chapter 4: Semi-Future Representation: Justifying Responsiveness to Objective Interests in the Future Chapter 5: Semi-Future Accountability: The Ways of Responsibility and Reflexivity Towards the Future Chapter 6: Semi-Future Policymaking: The Implementation of Long-Term Democratic Governance Epilogue: Future-Oriented Democratic Theory Acknowledgements Bibliography.