| Description |
1 online resource (xv, 306 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
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 U.S. 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 U.S. 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 |
| Summary |
"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"-- Provided by publisher |
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"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"-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-293) and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Social policy.
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Social choice.
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Political planning.
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Welfare economics.
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Externalities (Economics) -- Political aspects
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Pensions -- Government policy -- Case studies
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public policy.
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Personal Finance -- Retirement Planning.
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Pensions -- Government policy
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Political planning
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Social choice
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Social policy
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Welfare economics
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| Genre/Form |
Case studies
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2010033557 |
| ISBN |
9781139077651 |
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1139077651 |
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9780511921766 |
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0511921764 |
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9781139079945 |
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1139079948 |
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9781139079945 |
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1107214599 |
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9781107214590 |
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1139063146 |
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9781139063142 |
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1283110938 |
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9781283110938 |
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9786613110930 |
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6613110930 |
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1139069632 |
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9781139069632 |
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1139082213 |
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9781139082211 |
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