Preserving Public Lands for the Future - The Politics of Intergenerational Goods

Informationen zum Autor William R. Lowry is associate professor of political science at Washington University in St. Louis and author of The Dimensions of Federalism (Duke University Press! 1992) and The Capacity for Wonder (Brookings Institution Press! 1994). Klappentext Comparing national efforts to preserve public lands, William R. Lowry investigates how effectively and under what conditions governments can provide goods for future generations. Providing intergenerational goods, ranging from balanced budgets to space programs and natural environments, is particularly challenging because most political incentives reward short-term behavior. Lowry examines the effort of institutional structure on the public delivery of these goods. He offers a theoretical framework accounting for both the necessary conditions--public demand, political stability, and official commitment to long-term delivery--and constraining factors--the tensions between public agencies and politicians as well as between different levels of government--that determine the ability of a nation to achieve long-term goals. Zusammenfassung Comparing national efforts to preserve public lands! this title investigates how effectively and under what conditions governments can provide goods for future generations. It examines the effect of institutional structure on the public delivery of these goods.

Product details

• Authors: William R. Lowry
• Publisher: Georgetown University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.10.1998
• EAN: 9780878407026
• ISBN: 978-0-87840-702-6
• No. of pages: 320
• Series: American Governance and Public; American Governance and Public Policy series
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Ecology; Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Politics; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education