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Showing 1 to 20 of 186 for “"Public good"”.
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Essays on Public Good Contribution
… issues in the voluntary contributions to public good. Chapter I contains a brief motivation and introduction. In chapters II and III, we analyze two non-cooperative methods for either enhancing or mitigating externality-causing activities. Chapter II deals with positive externality in the …
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Confiscation or Serving the Public Good?
… in <em>Kelo v. City of New London</em> (2005), a public firestorm erupted, sparking massive public and political discourse that rocked the sphere of property rights nationwide. Although much of the scrutiny was critical, there were those that attempted to illustrate not only the importance of …
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Public good, private providers?: Alternative internet networks in Alberta
… high-quality, affordable internet service as a public good, what lessons, if any, can be learned from the different ways non-incumbent operators conceptualize, build, and operate alternative networks? Using qualitative interviews, policy documents, and marketing materials, I focus on three …
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Security Research for the Public Good: A Principled Approach
… vendors betraying user trust, exposing the public to exploitable code, data leaks, and invasive privacy practices. Undirected security research may be insufficient for preventing such foreseeable and preventable failures, as these problems are often the result of misaligned vendor incentives …
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Individualism and the public good: a case study in childhood immunisation
… of a policy with implications for the public good. The thesis describes the public policy environment m which the National Immunisation Strategy was developed, examining the changes individualism wrought in both New Zealand’s political economy and in civil society. It traces the impact …
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Experimental Perspectives on Intergenerational Altruism: A Study on Public Good Dilemmas
… is represented by contributions to long-run public goods, including the educational system, the health-care system, major infrastructures and environmental protection. Moreover, the production of some of these public goods has wide-ranging externalities to local or global communities (think …
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A City of Angels: Philanthropy and the Public Good in the Fragmented Metropolis
… in the increased potential of serving the public good. By expanding beyond the criticisms of the exploitative foundations of philanthropy, I offer a reinterpretation of the notion that philanthropy is a technology of power that disseminates economic, social, and cultural control. Instead of …
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Power for the public good : energy, race and class in the United States
Racial discrimination has led to measurable disparities in many domains, including such areas as housing, education and banking. Numerous studies within these domains of social and economic life illustrate that discrimination is a significant barrier to the full and equitable deployment of products …
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Shifting Terrains: Upsetting the Balance Between Public Good and Private Interest in the Takings Debate
… use planning requires the careful regulation of public and private lands in order to promote the public good. However, as the Supreme Court changes the application of the Takings Clause of the 5th Amendment in state and local cases, the rules under which land use planning has functioned in the …
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Study Abroad and the Global Public Good: A Developmental Evaluation of the International Business Major
… university’s mission to positively impact the public good. Using developmental program evaluation and UNESCO’s global citizenship education theory, this study found that students are involved in a dynamic choice process that is influenced by three systems: the university, the personal network, …
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Elicitation Mode Effects on Group Decision-Making in a Step-Level Public Good Social Dilemma
… was examined in a sequential step-level public good social dilemma with a variable provision point. It was found that groups in both elicitation mode conditions followed a similar simple-majority process in making the group decisions. Computer simulations further suggested that group …
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Behavioural economic applications to climate change mitigation and adaptation: public good games and risk experiments
… The papers in Section 1 utilise framed public good games to focus on two different aspects of the public goods dilemma synonymous with climate change mitigation. In this context, the first paper 'What is fair? An experimental guide to climate negotiations' examines the degree to which …
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VALUING CHANGES IN THE PROVISION OF A PUBLIC GOOD: EMPIRICAL APPLICATIONS IN ENVIRONMENTAL AND HEALTH ECONOMICS
… the provision of environmental and health care goods. It estimates non-market benefits to society from protecting forest lands from commercial activities and elicits individuals preference (e.g., willingness to pay) for expanding health care coverage to the uninsured. Health care provision …
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The Public Good and Private Business of the Crow Rate: Prairie Grain Handling and Transportation Policy
… governments argued for its retention as a public good continuing a long-standing national policy promise to prairie residents. This dissertation examines the public debate over the Crow rate as part of a larger discussion over changes to prairie agriculture, which also raised concerns about …
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International Labour Law as a Global Public Good: Enhancing Labour Regulation in an Era of Globalisation
… labour law should be perceived as a global public good. Through this characterisation, the dissertation uncovers mechanisms to support a resilient cooperative regime of international labour standards. Ultimately, it supports the notion that it is possible to effectively promote labour …
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Corporations as Custodians of the Public Good? Exploring the Intersection of Corporate Water Stewardship and Global Water Governance
… and balances’ to ensure that CWS serves the public good, rather than simply contributing to private profit.
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State, religion, and the public good: An examination of Nurcholish Madjid in constructing civil religious pluralism as political philosophy
… this goal becomes possible when the religious goods held by religious selves, expressed in religious moral orders, are placed in dialogue within civil society. Madjid’s understanding of the religious self, the religious moral order as a part of multiple modernities, and the religious pluralism …
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