In fact, it has left itself open to dual loyalties, expanding financial commitments, and empire-building by the actors to which it has delegated public goods provision. It is the opportunity to manage the transformation of the nation-state less opportunistically by re-establishing rational-choice ...
established a multiparty democracy in the early 1990s, measures of high poverty and low state provision of public goods, in addition to high levels of corruption from the Angolan executive government headed by President José Eduardo dos Santos, do not equate with the proclaimed status of a ...
Civic culture evolves over time according to the relative payoff of civic﹎inded and materialist citizens. A strong civic culture manifests itself as high tax revenues sustained by high levels of voluntary tax compliance and provision of public goods. This captures the idea of government as a ...
Edwards and Zadek Governing 200-224 Edwards M and Zadek S "Governing the Provision of Global Public Goods: The Role and Legitimacy of Nonstate Actors" in Kaul I et al (eds) Providing Public Goods: Managing Globalization (Oxford University Press Oxford 2003)...
State-Variable Public Goods and Social Comparisons over Time The optimal provision of a state-variable public good, where the global climate is the prime example, is analyzed in a model where people care about their relative consumption. We consider both keeping-up-with-the-Joneses preferences (...
aThe provision of goods and services by the Counterpart named herein to The State of Kuwait or related parties with the assistance and intermediation of the Intermediary, such goods and services to include, but not to be limited to: Construction, Petrochemical Activities, Transportation Services, ...
Week2: Pure Public Goods and Coase TheoremLecture 3 and 4 utilizes game theory to explain how the structure of payoffs characterizes political choices, including the provision of public goods. We then learn how market externalities can be corrected through collective action and consider the implicati...
The worst provision of that legislation almost certainly was a temporary per-child entitlement of $3,000-$3,600. Biden then wanted to make this entitlement permanent as part of his $5 trillion plan to “build back better.” Fortunately, that boondoggle sank under its own weight and the sli...
Secondly, the concept of Market failure, which may be defined as the inability of non-centralised market productive agents and actors to produce outputs to fill the conditions for the provision of public goods and exclusive property right (Chang &Rowthorn 1995). In other words, it is the inab...