Governing for the long term : democracy and the politics of investment / / Alan M. Jacobs.
"This book examines how democratic governments manage long-term policy challenges, asking how elected politicians choose between providing policy benefits in the present and investing in the future"--
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Year of Publication: | 2011 |
Language: | English |
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Physical Description: | xv, 306 p. :; ill. |
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245 | 1 | 0 | |a Governing for the long term |h [electronic resource] : |b democracy and the politics of investment / |c Alan M. Jacobs. |
260 | |a Cambridge ; |a New York : |b Cambridge University Press, |c 2011. | ||
300 | |a xv, 306 p. : |b ill. | ||
504 | |a Includes bibliographical references and index. | ||
505 | 8 | |a Machine generated contents note: Part I. Problem and Theory: 1. The politics of when; 2. Theorizing intertemporal policy choice; Part II. Programmatic Origins: Intertemporal Choice in Pension Design: 3. Investing in the state: the origins of German pensions, 1889; 4. The politics of mistrust: the origins of British pensions, 1925; 5. Investments as political constraint: the origins of US pensions, 1935; 6. Investing for the short term: the origins of Canadian pensions, 1965; Part III. Programmatic Change: Intertemporal Choice in Pension Reform: 7. Investment as last resort: reforming US pensions, 1977 and 1983; 8. Shifting the long-run burden: reforming British pensions, 1986; 9. Committing to investment: reforming Canadian pensions, 1998; 10. Constrained by uncertainty: reforming German pensions, 1989 and 2001; Part IV. Conclusion: 11. Understanding the politics of the long term. | |
520 | |a "This book examines how democratic governments manage long-term policy challenges, asking how elected politicians choose between providing policy benefits in the present and investing in the future"-- |c Provided by publisher. | ||
520 | |a "In Governing for the Long Term, Alan M. Jacobs investigates the conditions under which elected governments invest in long-term social benefits at short-term social cost. Jacobs contends that, along the path to adoption, investment-oriented policies must surmount three distinct hurdles to future-oriented state action: a problem of electoral risk, rooted in the scarcity of voter attention; a problem of prediction, deriving from the complexity of long-term policy effects; and a problem of institutional capacity, arising from interest groups' preferences for distributive gains over intertemporal bargains. Testing this argument through a four-country historical analysis of pension policymaking, the book illuminates crucial differences between the causal logics of distributive and intertemporal politics and makes a case for bringing trade-offs over time to the center of the study of policymaking"-- |c Provided by publisher. | ||
533 | |a Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries. | ||
650 | 0 | |a Social policy. | |
650 | 0 | |a Social choice. | |
650 | 0 | |a Political planning. | |
650 | 0 | |a Welfare economics. | |
650 | 0 | |a Externalities (Economics) |x Political aspects. | |
650 | 0 | |a Pensions |x Government policy |v Case studies. | |
655 | 4 | |a Electronic books. | |
710 | 2 | |a ProQuest (Firm) | |
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