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Constructing Global Public Goods
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2019
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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.
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Copyright year
2019
ISBN-Print
978-1-4985-5356-8
ISBN-Online
978-1-4985-5357-5
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
154
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Acknowledgments No access
OneA Constructivist Approachto Global Public Goods No access Pages 1 - 12
TwoAccounting for Tastes No access Pages 13 - 24
ThreeUtility, Preferences, and theIndividual Public Goods Decision No access Pages 25 - 48
FourLeadership and theGlobal Monetary System No access Pages 49 - 66
FiveCollective Security asa Global Public Good No access Pages 67 - 86
