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020			_a9780511921766 (ebook)
020			_z9780521195850 (hardback)
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040			_aUkCbUP _beng _erda _cUkCbUP _dBD-SySUS.
050	0	0	_aHN28 _b.J29 2011
082	0	0	_a331.25/2 _222
100	1		_aJacobs, Alan M., _eauthor.
245	1	0	_aGoverning for the Long Term : _bDemocracy and the Politics of Investment / _cAlan M. Jacobs.
264		1	_aCambridge : _bCambridge University Press, _c2011.
300			_a1 online resource (324 pages) : _bdigital, PDF file(s).
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
500			_aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 04 Apr 2016).
520			_aIn 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.
650		0	_aSocial policy
650		0	_aSocial choice
650		0	_aPolitical planning
650		0	_aWelfare economics
776	0	8	_iPrint version: _z9780521195850
856	4	0	_uhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511921766
942			_2Dewey Decimal Classification _ceBooks
999			_c38141 _d38141