Reflexive Governance for Global Public Goods [electronic resource].
Brousseau, Eric.
Dedeurwaerdere, Tom.
Siebenhüner, Bernd.
Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press,
c2012.
Governance challenges and solutions for the provision of global public goods in such areas as the environment, food security, and development.
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Contents; Series Foreword; Acknowledgments; Contributors; Introduction; Global Public Goods and the Governance Issues They Raise; The Challenges of Global Governance; Conceptualizing Global Governance and Global Public Goods; Framing Individual and Collective Actions: Challenges in Designing Incentive Schemes; A Web of Mechanisms to Ensure Compliance; Reflexive Processes of Governance; The Necessity and Difficulty of Knowledge Generation; The Potential of the Reflexive Governance Approach; Improving Institutional Fit; Part I. The Challenges in Governing Global Public Goods
Chapter 1. Global Public Goods: The Participatory Governance ChallengesThe Governance Issues Raised by the Many Features of Public Goods; Pure and Impure Public Goods; Heterogeneity in Consumption and Contribution; Public Goods as Societal Issues; A Framework for Analyzing Collective Governance; Disentangling the Logic and the Mechanisms of Coordination; Public Goods in a World of Bounded Rationality; Public Goods in a Global Context; The Role of Knowledge Communities in Global Governance; Reflexive Governance for Collective Learning about the Provision of GPGs
Chapter 2. Rethinking Public Goods and Global Public GoodsOut of Step: The Current Concept and Reality of Public Goods; Non-Excludability and Non-Rivalry as Poor Predictors of Publicness; Sometimes Enjoyed by All But Also Frequently Contested; Sometimes Supplied by the State Alone But Mostly Multi-Actor Provided; Sometimes National in Scope but Also Transnational in Reach; A Focus on Already-Public Goods; Recognition of Economic Market Failure but Not Political Market Failure; Concern About Fiscal Balance Not Macro Allocative Efficiency
Narrowing the Gap between the Theory and Reality of Public GoodsFormulating an Expanded, Empirical Definition of Public Goods; Recognizing Transnationalness as a Special Dimension of Publicness; Introducing the Tool of Provision Path Analysis; Developing a Theory of Actor Failure in Public Goods Provision; Taking Account of the Full Political Process and Life-Cycle of the Good; Developing a Concept of Adequate Public Goods Provision; The Role of Reflexive Governance in Fostering an Adequate and Legitimate Provision of Global Public Goods; Notes
Chapter 3. New Face of Development Assistance: Public Goods and Changing EthicsPublic Good Aid; Millennium Development Goals (MDGs); Aggregation Technology and New Directions in Giving; Five Sectors of Aid; Prognosis for Public Goods Based on Spatial Considerations; Conclusion; Notes; Part II. Designing Complex Incentive Schemes; Chapter 4. Crowding Out and Crowding In of Intrinsic Preferences; Standard Microeconomics: Homo Oeconomicus; A Broader Set of Motivations; Crowding Theory; Empirical Evidence on Motivation Crowding Effects; Conclusions; Notes
Chapter 5. Regulatory Reform and Reflexive Regulation: Beyond Command and Control
Governance challenges and solutions for the provision of global public goods in such areas as the environment, food security, and development.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Common good -- Economic aspects.
Common good -- Environmental aspects.
Common good -- International cooperation.
Environmental protection -- International cooperation.
Public interest -- Economic aspects.
Public interest -- Environmental aspects.
Public interest -- International cooperation.
Public interest
Common good
Public interest
Common good
Public interest
Common good
Environmental protection
Sustainable development
Political Science
Law, Politics & Government
Political Theory of the State