democracy and the politics of investment Jacobs, Alan M. creator text bibliography enk Cambridge New York Cambridge University Press 2011 monographic eng

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xiv, 306 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. "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"-- 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. Alan M. Jacobs. Includes bibliographical references (p. 269-293) and index. 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 HN 28 J29g 2011 331.25 9780521195850 9780521171779 2010033557 http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1114/2010033557-b.html http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1114/2010033557-d.html http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1114/2010033557-t.html http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1114/2010033557-b.html http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1114/2010033557-d.html http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1114/2010033557-t.html DLC 100809 20230410115841.0 116997