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The susceptibility to cycles of excessiveness leads, as Kurt Sontheimer aptly pointed out, “to a trend to pursue extremely short — term policies that — though with an eye to the future — still do not manage to produce anything more than patchwork policy in keeping with the dominant spirit of the age currently in vogue.”
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Späth, L. (1986). Politics as the Fiduciary of Future Generations. In: Facing the Future. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-71608-9_2
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