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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.

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Book category Książki po angielsku Society & social sciences Politics & government Political structure & processes

• Full title: Governing for the Long Term
• Subtitle: Democracy and the Politics of Investment
• Author: Alan M. Jacobs
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 320
• EAN: 9780521195850
• ISBN: 0521195853
• ID: 02025439
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Weight: 590 g
• Dimensions: 241 × 163 × 21 mm
• Date of publishing: 31. March 2011

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