Alan M. Jacobs

Governing for the Long Term

Democracy and the Politics of Investment

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Produktbeschreibung

This book asks how elected politicians choose between providing policy benefits in the present and investing in the future.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 324
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. April 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 554g
• ISBN-13: 9780521171779
• ISBN-10: 0521171776
• Artikelnr.: 32735915

Autorenporträt

Alan M. Jacobs is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of British Columbia. The recipient of the 2009 Mary Parker Follett Award of the American Political Science Association and the 2005 John Heinz Dissertation Award of the National Academy of Social Insurance, Jacobs is the author of several articles and book chapters on comparative public policy.

Inhaltsangabe

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 US
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 US 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.