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

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The Quiet Paradigm Revolution of Social Investment (2015, background): “Perhaps the most profound political obstacle to the diffusion of social investment, well explicated by the path-breaking monograph by Jacobs (2011) concerns its inter-temporal character.”
Institutions, Climate Change, and the Foundations of Long-Term Policymaking (2019, background): “Adapted from Jacobs (2011, 20).”
Historical institutionalism and the politics of sustainable energy transitions: A research agenda (2017, background): “In one of the few case studies, Jacobsson and Lauber (2006) show how German Green Party Members of Parliament in the early 1990s and the Green Party in governing coalitions in Germany from 1998 to 2005 were instrumental in the expansion of solar power.”
Nonrepresentative Representatives: An Experimental Study of the Decision Making of Elected Politicians (2017, background): “…time discounting is elemental in numerous studies of political spending decisions, specific policy choices (especially on environmental policies), public opinion, and electoral behavior of both elites and constituents (Jacobs 2011; Loewenstein and Elster 1992; Nordhaus 1975; Streich and Levy 2007).”