Defining Public Goods: An Institutional Approach to Community-Building and Negotiating Inter-Community Conflict

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Edward Elgar Publishing, 31.07.2021 - 176 Seiten
Through the lens of an economist’s notion of public goods, David J. O’Brien analyzes the dual problems of declining communities and polarizing conflicts between metropolitan and rural communities. The author describes in detail how seemingly intractable community-level problems and inter-community conflicts have been substantially reduced by framing them in terms of the self-interest of a larger polity. O’Brien’s extensive community-level research experience in urban and rural communities that covers multiple historical periods, will appeal to inter-disciplinary social scientists, development specialists and persons looking for a hopeful, practical approach to solving the challenges of globalization.
 

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globalization and the community challenge
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1 Conceptualizing community within the public goods paradigm
21
2 Sources of resistance to defining community as a larger public goods problem
37
3 An institutional approach to building sustainable communities
54
4 Examples of topdown formal institutional adjustments on community sustainability and intercommunity conflict
71
5 Location informal institutions and social network effects on rural American community responses to globalization
95
6 Revisiting the quest for community
114
References
139
Index
157
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David J. O’Brien, Professor Emeritus, Division of Applied Social Sciences, University of Missouri, US

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