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Book SynopsisComparing 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 effect 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.
In support of this argument, Lowry evaluates data on park systems from more than one hundred countries and provides in-depth case studies of four he Uni
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Provides both a new theoretical framework for understanding national public land policy and a detailed examination of the existing land policies of four nations ... Lowry's theoretical framework is innovative, and he considers several variables that are often overlooked. Perspectives on Political Science Lowry's interweaving of anecdotal illustrations and well-chosen detail within the broader theoretical framework makes for a compelling argument ... Recommended for all levels. Choice
