Reflexive governance for global public goods / edited by Eric Brousseau, Tom Dedeurwaerdere, and Bernd Siebenhuner.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Brousseau, Eric.

Dedeurwaerdere, Tom.

Siebenhüner, Bernd.

Series:

Politics, science, and the environment.

Politics, science, and the environment

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Public interest--International cooperation.

Public interest.

Common good--International cooperation.

Common good.

Public interest--Environmental aspects.

Common good--Environmental aspects.

Public interest--Economic aspects.

Common good--Economic aspects.

Environmental protection--International cooperation.

Environmental protection.

Sustainable development--International cooperation.

Sustainable development.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (383 p.)

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Governance challenges and solutions for the provision of global public goods in such areas as the environment, food security, and development.

Contents:

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

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-280-49935-4

9786613594587

0-262-30121-0

OCLC:

785195453