Governing for the Long Term
Democracy and the Politics of Investment
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- Author: Alan M. Jacobs, University of British Columbia, Vancouver
- Date Published: June 2011
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- isbn: 9780521171779
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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.
Read more- One of the first studies of how politicians make policy trade-offs over time: choices between present and future social welfare
- Advances a general theory of the conditions under which elected governments make investments in the long term
- Analyzes both cognitive and strategic influences on intertemporal policymaking
- Draws on extensive primary research on the origins and recent reforms of public pension systems in Germany, Britain, Canada and the United States
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- Date Published: June 2011
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521171779
- length: 324 pages
- dimensions: 231 x 155 x 20 mm
- weight: 0.46kg
- contains: 6 b/w illus. 2 tables
- availability: Available
Table of 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 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.Instructors have used or reviewed this title for the following courses
- Intergenerational Policy
- Political and Economic Environment
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