Governing for the long term: democracy and the politics of investment

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-orie...

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Beteilige Person: Jacobs, Alan M. (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2011
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Links:https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511921766
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511921766
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511921766
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511921766
Zusammenfassung: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
Umfang:1 Online-Ressource xiv, 306 Seiten)
ISBN:9780511921766
DOI:10.1017/CBO9780511921766