Federalism as a Public Good
نویسندگان
چکیده
منابع مشابه
Federalism as a Public Good
This paper suggests that stabilizing federalism is like solving a public good provision problem. It reviews results in the public good provision literature that are relevant for federalism, and discusses the implications of these results for the institutional design of federalism. 1For useful feedback, I thank seminar participants at Washington University, Duke, and Michigan. Federalism now rea...
متن کاملResponse to Privacy as a Public Good
Most of the legal, philosophical, and social-science thinking about privacy emphasizes its value to the individual with less attention to its value to society. Professors Fairfield and Engel join a growing number of privacy scholars who are probing privacy’s value to society and policy options to protect privacy’s social value. They signal its social importance and also underscore weaknesses in...
متن کاملClinical trial data as a public good.
KNOWLEDGE OF THE BENEFITS AND RISKS OF PRESCRIPtion drugs is based mainly on published reports of clinical trials, yet the medical literature may present an incomplete and potentially biased sample of clinical trials. Trials with positive results generally are published more frequently than studies that conclude that a new drug poses greater risks or is no more effective than standard therapy o...
متن کاملResistance as a Threshold Public Good: Experimental Evidence
This paper provides a new treatment of the problem of group action and political protest. It has two aims (a) to model resistance against state policies as a threshold public good, and (b) to consider legitimacy in terms of how legitimacy considerations affect choice. Experimental evidence suggests that the level of resistance depends on whether the sovereign is legitimated: high claims are rej...
متن کاملPublic-Good Productivity Differentials and Non-Cooperative Public-Good Provision
We explore the generality of Konrad and Lommerud (1995)’s Rotten Spouse Theorem. While the result holds for an arbitrary number of agents, it fails to hold for general technologies. We discuss some of the implications for CO2-emissions models.
متن کاملذخیره در منابع من
با ذخیره ی این منبع در منابع من، دسترسی به آن را برای استفاده های بعدی آسان تر کنید
ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Constitutional Political Economy
سال: 2005
ISSN: 1043-4062,1572-9966
DOI: 10.1007/s10602-005-2235-5