Goods Dilemmas, Bad Dilemmas
What is the Prisoner's Dilemma?
a bounded group sharing norms & identity
What is a community?
the authority of a regional government to govern its population autonomously
What is self-rule?
a rivalrous but non-excludable good
What is a common pool resource?
a stable, collectively suboptimal state resulting from individual rationality
What is a Nash Equilibrium?
a scenario in which goods provision becomes more cost-efficient as its scope increases
What are economies of scale?
the participation of a regional government in governing at the national level
What is shared-rule?
a non-rivalrous, non-excludable good
What is a public good?
a good that does not diminish as it is consumed
What is a non-rival good?
a concept describing the pairing of favoritism toward in-group and hostility toward out-group members
What is parochial altruism?
the dispersion of authority vertically across multiple jurisdictional levels and horizontally across actors
What is multi-level governance?
a concept describing the depletion of shared resources based on individual rationality
What is the tragedy of the commons?
a good that consumers can not be prevented from using
What is a non-excludable good?
the dispersion of authority to jurisdictions bundling together various policy responsibilities
What is general-purpose (type 1) governance?
a decision-making rule requiring the agreement of all members (of an IO)
What is unanimity (voting)?
a strategy (of empire) where a community is incorporated into a larger jurisdiction by getting them to identify with it
What is assimilation (as a strategy of governance)?
the act of consuming a good without contributing
What is free-riding?
the dispersion of authority to jurisdictions designed around particular policy problems
What is task-specific (type 2) governance?
a decision-making rule in IOs requiring more than a simple majority but less than unanimity
What is qualified majority voting (QMV)?
a strategy (of empire) where a community is incorporated into a larger jurisdiction by granting them some level of self-rule
What is accommodation (as a strategy of governance)?