Governing for the long term : democracy and the politics of investment / Alan M. Jacobs.

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Jacobs, Alan M, 1932-

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TextPublication details: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2011.Description: 1 online resource (xv, 306 pages) : illustrationsContent type:

text

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computer

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online resource

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9781139077651
1139077651
9780511921766
0511921764
9781139079945
1139079948
9781139079945
1107214599
9781107214590
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9781139063142
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9781283110938
9786613110930
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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Governing for the long term.DDC classification:

331.25/2 22

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HN28 .J29 2011eb

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Contents:

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 U.S. 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 U.S. 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.

Summary: "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"-- Provided by publisherSummary: "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"-- Provided by publisher

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-293) and index.

"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"-- Provided by publisher

"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"-- Provided by publisher