عنوان

Governing for the long term :

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0521171776

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0521195853

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9780521171779

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9780521195850

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b528429

Title Proper

Governing for the long term :

General Material Designation

[Book]

Other Title Information

democracy and the politics of investment /

First Statement of Responsibility

Alan M. Jacobs

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

New York :

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Cambridge University Press,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

2011

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

xiv, 306 pages :

Other Physical Details

illustrations ;

Dimensions

24 cm

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-293) and index

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Problem and Theory: The politics of when. Theorizing intertemporal policy choice -- Programmatic Origins: Intertemporal Choice in Pension Design: Investing in the state: the origins of German pensions, 1889. The politics of mistrust: the origins of British pensions, 1925. Investments as political constraint: the origins of U.S. pensions, 1935. Investing for the short term: the origins of Canadian pensions, 1965 -- Programmatic Change: Intertemporal Choice in Pension Reform. Investment as last resort: reforming U.S. pensions, 1977 and 1983. Shifting the long-run burden: reforming British pensions, 1986. Committing to investment: reforming Canadian pensions, 1998. Constrained by uncertainty: reforming German pensions, 1989 and 2001 -- Conclusion: Understanding the politics of the long term

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"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"--

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"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"--

Externalities (Economics)-- Political aspects

Pensions-- Government policy, Case studies

Political planning

Social choice

Social policy

Welfare economics

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Book number

Jacobs, Alan M

Date of Transaction

20120216113922.0

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