Why democracy needs public goods / Angela Kallhoff.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kallhoff, Angela.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Public goods.

Physical Description:

viii, 163 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Lanham, Md. : Lexington Books, [2011]

Summary:

Why Democracy Needs Public Goods presents a new theoretical perspective on public goods based on a framework of political philosophy. Angela-Kallhoff responds to negative narratives on public goods that point out their role in causing market failures, their cost oh public finance and in regulation, and their irregular and sometimes negative effects on social interaction. She instead provides a normative approach arguing for their role in supporting democracies at crucial points by providing the basis for a public forum through public space and infrastructure, improving social inclusion through public healthcare and education, and fostering a sense of national identity.

This book also features a comprehensive description of other arguments and theoretical approaches to public goods, and it assesses the classical economic approach of collective action theory and counterarguments from the so-called libertarian camp. Kallhoff also analyzes the problems of regulatory frameworks and the normative issues resulting from the need to support by means of public finance. These perspectives will be most significant to political philosophers and policymakers, though the language used and the examples given will make Kallhoff's arguments comprehensible to non-experts as well. Book jacket.

Contents:

Introducing public goods

Theoretical background

Problems of supply reconsidered

Generating the public

Claims for social justice

Political self-determination

Conditions of a reasonable pluralism

A reply to libertarians.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 147-154) and index.

ISBN:

9780739151006

0739151002

9780739168004

0739168002

OCLC:

708763249