TY  - BOOK
AU  - Jacobs,Alan M.
TI  - Governing for the long term: democracy and the politics of investment 
SN  - 9780521195850
AV  - HN 28 J29g 2011
U1  - 331.25 
PY  - 2011///
CY  - Cambridge, New York
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Social policy
KW  - Social choice
KW  - Political planning
KW  - Welfare economics
KW  - Externalities (Economics)
KW  - Political aspects
KW  - Pensions
KW  - Government policy
KW  - Case studies
KW  - Política y gobierno
KW  - Condiciones sociales
KW  - Primera Jornada de Catalogación
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. 269-293) and index; 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
N2  - "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"--
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UR  - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1114/2010033557-t.html
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