Transnational Common Goods and Multi-level Systems: Analytical Framework

Abstract

The empirical illustrations used in this book are global common goods in some cases, transnational common goods in most cases, and transboundary common goods in all cases. The analysis carried out in the previous chapters has not devoted any special attention to the fact that the respective goods are transboundary, transnational, or even global. The transboundary nature of goods (crossing jurisdictional borders) implies that they will be provided either by a governance structure at a central level, if such a central level exists, or by a system of multi-level governance. The analysis thus far treated the provision of these goods as single-level problems, however. Only one level of decision making has been looked at. The multi-level structure of the provision of transnational common goods is the subject of this part of the book.