03516cam a2200421 a 4500 116997 20230410115841.0 100809s2011 enka b 001 0 eng 16380818 2010033557 9780521195850 DLC DLC DLC 9780521171779 HN 28 J29g 2011 331.25 Jacobs, Alan M. 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. 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. "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. Social policy. Social choice. Political planning. Welfare economics. Externalities (Economics) Political aspects. Pensions Government policy Case studies. Política y gobierno. Condiciones sociales. Condiciones sociales Política y gobierno. Primera Jornada de Catalogación. Contributor biographical information http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1114/2010033557-b.html Publisher description http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1114/2010033557-d.html Table of contents only http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1114/2010033557-t.html lcc bk 49168 49168 0 0 lcc 0 0 CS BJB BJB CS 2023-04-10 1 0 HN 28 J29g 2011 00000103471 2018-10-24 00:00:00 1 2018-10-24 bk