Home
/ Nature & Environment / Public Policy / The Ideal of Self-Governance: Public Policy Beyond Markets and States / The Limits of Self-Governance: Practicality Objections
The Limits of Self-Governance: Practicality Objections
In this video, Professor Mark Pennington explains the practical arguments against self-governance.
We will now consider the first set of possible objections to the case for self-governance.
Two of the main practicality objections are that 1) self-governing institutions can lead to an unnecessary or inefficient duplication of public services, and 2) that they cannot be effective beyond a relatively small scale.
Elinor Ostrom gave these questions considerable thought. In this video, we’ll consider these objections and Ostrom’s response in greater detail.
This article is from the online course:
The Ideal of Self-Governance: Public Policy Beyond Markets and States
Created by
This article is from the free online
The Ideal of Self-Governance: Public Policy Beyond Markets and States
