Public Choice Issues in International Collective Action: Global Warming Regulation

2016 ◽  
pp. 13-34
Author(s):  
Daniel Houser ◽  
Gary D. Libecap
Keyword(s):  
Global Warming ◽  
Collective Action ◽  
Public Choice

scholarly journals Love for the Motherland

2016 ◽  
Vol 1 (4) ◽  
pp. 418-449 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Paul Goode
Keyword(s):  
Collective Action ◽  
Focus Groups ◽  
Public Choice ◽  
Russian Government ◽  
Authoritarian Rule ◽  
The Government ◽  
Depth Interviews

In recent years, the Russian government has promoted patriotism as a means to unify society and secure the legitimacy of Putin’s regime. This paper considers the effectiveness of this campaign by examining everyday understandings of patriotism among Russian citizens. Drawing on in-depth interviews and focus groups conducted in two regions in 2014–2015, patriotism is lived and experienced among ordinary Russians as a personal, normative, and apolitical ideal that diverges significantly from official patriotic narratives. At the same time, Russians are convinced that the majority of fellow citizens are patriotic in the ways envisioned by the government. As a result, the government’s use of patriotism is more effective in raising barriers to collective action than cultivating legitimacy. At the same time, everyday forms of patriotism encourage citizens to sacrifice public choice and to tolerate authoritarian rule.

scholarly journals Can the Cop21 Stop the Rise of CO2s

2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. p14
Author(s):  
Jan-Erik Lane
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Global Warming ◽  
Collective Action ◽  
Public Good ◽  
Global Public Good ◽  
Irreversible Change ◽  
Global Environmental ◽  
The World ◽  
Environmental Process ◽  
Coal Power

The UN Climate Change Conference COP 25 is a huge international reunion to attempt to enact with unanimity policies that counteract global warming or its effects. Can such really overcome the difficult problematic of collective action inherent in providing global public good? The Global Environmental Process runs meeting after meeting-no results. The global thermometer keeps rising, as Co2s do not decrease. The first manifestations of Hawking’s irreversible change have appeared around the world. Only one major non-incremental policy would make a difference: close down coal power.

Lobbying for trade barriers: a comparison of poultry producers' success in Cameroon, Senegal and Ghana

2011 ◽  
Vol 49 (4) ◽  
pp. 575-599 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martha C. Johnson
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
Collective Action ◽  
West Africa ◽  
Public Choice ◽  
Interest Group ◽  
Government Policy ◽  
Newspaper Coverage ◽  
Policy Outcomes ◽  
Trade Barriers ◽  
Food Commodity

ABSTRACTOver the last two decades, developing countries have lowered trade barriers considerably. As a result, they have experienced a surge in food commodity imports. In Ghana, Senegal and Cameroon, a flood of frozen poultry imports in the late 1990s and early 2000s threatened domestic poultry producers. In response, they organised to demand protectionist measures. This article examines why the Cameroonian and Senegalese governments responded to these demands while the Ghanaian government did not. Employing data from interviews in Senegal, newspaper coverage in all three countries, and documentation from non-governmental organisations, it argues that Cameroonian, and to a lesser extent Senegalese, producers were able to influence government policy because they faced few barriers to collective action and built alliances with consumers before lobbying government. The findings suggest that a public choice, interest group-focused approach is still useful for explaining policy outcomes in West Africa.

The Ethics of Efficient Markets and Commons Tragedies: A Review of John Broome's Climate Matters: Ethics in a Warming World

2014 ◽  
Vol 52 (4) ◽  
pp. 1135-1141 ◽  
Author(s):  
William Nordhaus
Keyword(s):  
Global Warming ◽  
Collective Action ◽  
Greenhouse Gas ◽  
Carbon Footprint ◽  
Future Generations ◽  
Efficient Markets ◽  
Individual Level ◽  
Ethical Implications ◽  
Zero Carbon ◽  
Warming World

What are the ethical implications of our contributions to global warming on an individual level? In his extended essay, John Broome analyzes the moral implications of our imposing damages on future generations through our greenhouse-gas emissions. He argues that we as individuals owe restitution to those who are in the future damaged by these unjust acts. He suggests that restitution can be accomplished by completely offsetting emissions and thereby having a zero carbon footprint. This review examines the force of his arguments and suggests that offsetting emissions on an individual basis is an imperfect substitute for collective action or more encompassing contributions to those hurt by our externalities. (JEL D63, Q21, Q54, Q58)

Collective Action and Citizen Responses to Global Warming

2007 ◽  
Vol 29 (3) ◽  
pp. 391-413 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark Lubell ◽  
Sammy Zahran ◽  
Arnold Vedlitz
Keyword(s):  
Global Warming ◽  
Collective Action
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