Jacobs, Alan M. <br/><br/>
Governing for the long term :  democracy and the politics of investment / 
Alan M. Jacobs. 
 - Cambridge ;  New York :  Cambridge University Press,  2011. 
 - xiv, 306 p. :  ill. ;  24 cm. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (p. 269-293) and index. 
<br/><br/>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 --  Investment 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. 
<br/><br/> "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"--  "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"-- 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780521195850 9780521171779 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2010033557 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Social policy.<br/>Social choice.<br/>Political planning.<br/>Welfare economics.<br/>Externalities (Economics)--Political aspects.<br/>Pensions--Government policy--Case studies.<br/>Política y gobierno.<br/>Condiciones sociales.<br/>Condiciones sociales--Política y gobierno.<br/>Primera Jornada de Catalogación.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>HN 28  / J29g 2011 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>331.25