TY  - BOOK
AU  - Jacobs,Alan M.
TI  - Governing for the Long Term: Democracy and the Politics of Investment 
SN  - 9780511921766 (ebook)
AV  - HN28 .J29 2011
U1  - 331.25/2 22
PY  - 2011///
CY  - Cambridge
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Social policy
KW  - Social choice
KW  - Political planning
KW  - Welfare economics
N1  - Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 04 Apr 2016)
N2  - 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
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511921766
ER  -