Alan M. Jacobs

Governing for the Long Term (eBook, ePUB)

Democracy and the Politics of Investment

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Produktbeschreibung

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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. März 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781139063142
• Artikelnr.: 52963855

Autorenporträt

Alan M. Jacobs is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of British Columbia. The recipient of the 2009 Mary Parker Follett Award of the American Political Science Association and the 2005 John Heinz Dissertation Award of the National Academy of Social Insurance, Jacobs is the author of several articles and book chapters on comparative public policy.

Inhaltsangabe

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.