
Quality of government and solutions to collective action problems
Short description
Collective action dilemmas are at the heart of many societal problems today. Stopping the spread of COVID-19, collecting taxes to finance public policy programs, mitigating climate change – solving all of these critical problems relies on the willingness of actors to sacrifice their immediate gain in the short-term for achieving collectively desirable outcomes in the long-term. This project aims to study the role of institutional context and the quality of those authorities that regulate interaction between individuals in securing collective action and achieving socially beneficial outcomes.
Research group
Marina Povitkina, Principal Investigator, Postdoc, Department of Political Science, University of Oslo
Sverker Carlsson Jagers, Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Gothenburg
Bo Rothstein, Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Gothenburg
Andrea Martinangeli, Doctoral Student, Max Planck Institute for Tax Law and Public Finance