James C. Roberts

Constructing Global Public Goods

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book brings a constructivist approach to analyzing public goods by recognizing that preferences are socially constructed from the actors' identities. This synthesis of constructivism and rational choice provides a deeper understanding of the decision to provide goods such as protecting human rights and collective security.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 164
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Mai 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 400g
• ISBN-13: 9781498553568
• ISBN-10: 1498553567
• Artikelnr.: 55896962

Autorenporträt

James C. Roberts is professor of political science at Towson University

Inhaltsangabe

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