Abstract The principle of fairness is a moral which states that individuals are under an obligation to contribute towards beneficial cooperative projects. It has been appealed in arguing citizens obligated pay for public goods their government supplies. Yet the faced number powerful objections, most notably those Robert Nozick. In responding some these proponents have placed conditions on its a...

This paper studies the impact of reservation for women on the performance of policy makers and on voters’ perceptions of this performance. Since the mid 1990’s, one third of Village Council head positions in India have been randomly reserved for a woman: In these councils only women could be elected to the position of chief. Village Councils are responsible for the provision of many local publi...

Noting that a major purpose of multilateral institutions is to deliver international public goods, this paper applies the theory and practice economics, as well papers in section, potential challenges facing these institutions. First, I show deviations from standard model fiscal decentralization are reflected experience Next, consider case one largest such institutions, World Bank, how nature g...

An individually costly act that benefits all group members is a public good. Natural selection favours individual contribution to public good [corrected] only when some benefit to the individual offsets the cost of contribution. Problems of sex ratio, parasite virulence, microbial metabolism, punishment of noncooperators, and nearly all aspects of sociality have been analysed as public goods sh...