Governing for the Long Term: Democracy and the Politics of Investment

by Alan M. Jacobs

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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...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0521171776

ISBN13:9780521171779

Release Date:March 2011

Publisher:Cambridge University Press

Length:324 Pages

Weight:1.08 lbs.

Dimensions:0.8" x 6.1" x 9.1"

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Political Science Politics & Social Sciences

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