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Constructing Global Public Goods

  • ISBN-13: 9781498553568
  • Publisher: ROWMAN & LITTLEFIELD PUBLISHERS
    Imprint: LEXINGTON BOOKS
  • By James C. Roberts
  • Price: AUD $212.00
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  • Availability: This book is temporarily out of stock, order will be despatched as soon as fresh stock is received.
  • Local release date: 14/07/2019
  • Format: Hardback 164 pages Weight: 0g
  • Categories: Politics & government [JP]
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Why do international actors provide global public goods when they could free-ride on the production of others? Constructing Global Public Goods examines this question by understanding the identities and preferences of the actors. Most rational choice models of public goods explain the public goods decision by examining the strategic interactions among the actors. They generally avoid the question of how utilities and preferences are formed. Constructing Global Public Goods brings a constructivist approach to the study of public goods by recognizing that the actors' utilities and preferences are socially constructed from the identities the actors take on in the choice situation. The book develops a formal model that links the interpretation of unobserved utilities to preferences for the public goods outcome. It then applies the model to case studies on global monetary management, collective security, and protecting human rights. Bringing constructivism into the public goods decision allows the analysis to look beyond the limited Prisoner's Dilemma based model of most rational choice approaches and recognizes that the decision whether or not to produce a global public good is a complex web of social, political and cultural factors.
Chapter 1 A Constructivist Approach to Global Public Goods Chapter 2 Accounting for Tastes: The Social Construction of Utility and Preferences Chapter 3 Utility, Preferences, and the Individual Public Goods Decision Chapter 4 Leadership and the Global Monetary System Chapter 5 Collective Security as a Global Public Good Chapter 6 The Individual Decision to Provide Collective Security: Romania and the Kosovo Campaign Chapter 7 Human Rights: Consensus, Norms, and Public Bads Chapter 8 Identities, Utilities, and Public Goods Decisions
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