Transnational Common Goods Strategic

The provision of transnational and global common goods is increasingly important as a result of economic globalization and of technological developments. In this book international financial markets and international environmental problems are analyzed as typical examples of transnational common goods. The book deals with the factors affecting the strategic constellations in common goods provision, and in particular the strategic effects of the multi-level governance structure. The book is innovative in two respects. First, it applies public good theory to large-scale real world problems. Second, it introduces a systematic approach to the analysis of multi-level governance structures and their role in international common goods provision.

Katharina Holzinger is Chair of International Relations and Conflict Management at the University of Konstanz since 2007. She studied political science, German studies and philosophy of science at the University of Munich and received her PhD from University of Augsburg in 1993. She was a research associate at the Social Science Research Center in Berlin (WZB) and at the Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods in Bonn, before she became Chair of Government at Hamburg University in 2004. Her main research interests include Rational choice theory, the European Union, transnational public goods, conflict resolution, and environmental policy. Among others, she has published in Public Administration, Political Communication, Rationality and Society, European Union Politics, European Journal of International Relations, European Journal of Political Science. Her most recent volume is “Environmental Policy Convergence in Europe”, 2008 (together with Christoph Knill and Bas Arts).

List of Tables	p. ix
Preface	p. xi
Introduction	p. 1
Strategic Constellations in Common Goods Provision
Common Goods Theory and Analytical Framework	p. 11
Classical Public Goods Theory	p. 12
Empirical Research on Common Goods	p. 21
Common Goods and Collective Action Problems	p. 28
Common Goods, the Prisoners' Dilemma, and the State	p. 29
Social Situations of Common Goods Provision	p. 36
Case Studies 1: Attributes of the Goods	p. 43
Cost-benefit Configuration: Credit Ratings as an Information Good	p. 43
Demand-side Properties: Credit Ratings, Environmental Pollution, and Systemic Risk	p. 55
Supply-side Properties: Global Warming, Biodiversity, and Locally Unwanted Land Uses	p. 69
Case Studies 2: Attributes of the Groups	p. 83
Heterogeneous Preferences: Capital Income Tax Coordination in the European Union	p. 85
Heterogeneous Capabilities: Tax Coordination and International River Pollution	p. 99
Case Studies 3: Attributes of the Social and Institutional Context	p. 111
Standards and Regulations in the Market for a Common Good: Credit Ratings	p. 112
Trade Regimes and Regulatory Competition for Environmental Standards	p. 122
Strategic Constellations and Collective Action Problems	p. 137
Properties of Common Goods and Strategic Constellations	p. 139
Collective Action Problems: A Typology	p. 147
Strategic Effects of Multi-level Provision of Common Goods
Transnational Common Goods and Multi-level Systems: Analytical Framework	p. 163
Transnational Common Goods and National Borders	p. 164
Theories of Multi-level Systems and Multi-level Provision of Common Goods	p. 169
Multi-level Analysis: The Role of Homogeneity and Heterogeneity	p. 174
Case Studies 4: Homogeneity and Heterogeneity	p. 179
Homogeneity and Heterogeneity of the Groups: Lakes, Rivers, and Biodiversity	p. 179
Heterogeneity of Homogeneous Constituencies: Global Warming	p. 184
Case Studies 5: Distortion Effects through Representation	p. 189
Distortion through Self-interested Representatives: Capital Income Tax Coordination	p. 190
Distortion through Cooperation: European Monetary Union	p. 194
Case Studies 6: Distortion Effects through Aggregation	p. 209
Strategic Constellations in the L1, L2, and Single-level Games: Locally Unwanted Land Uses	p. 210
Aggregation Effects in Cooperative Multi-level Solutions: Locally Unwanted Land Uses	p. 212
Conclusion	p. 227
Notes	p. 235
References	p. 237
Index	p. 253
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Transnational Common Goods Strategic Constellations, Collective Action Problems, and Multi-level Provision

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