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Public Choice Approach

The document summarizes the conventional approach to international organizations and presents a new "public choice" approach. The conventional approach sees international organizations as aiming to serve the public interest, but is limited because national leaders can abuse them. The new approach uses game theory to explain how international cooperation through organizations helps avoid misunderstandings between countries. However, organizations can also allow national governments to impose costs on their citizens or exploit agreements for political gain. The document examines the pillars, types of interdependence, abuses, and objections related to the conventional approach, and argues the public choice approach supplements and improves understanding.

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Public Choice Approach

The document summarizes the conventional approach to international organizations and presents a new "public choice" approach. The conventional approach sees international organizations as aiming to serve the public interest, but is limited because national leaders can abuse them. The new approach uses game theory to explain how international cooperation through organizations helps avoid misunderstandings between countries. However, organizations can also allow national governments to impose costs on their citizens or exploit agreements for political gain. The document examines the pillars, types of interdependence, abuses, and objections related to the conventional approach, and argues the public choice approach supplements and improves understanding.

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Review of the article; Public choice

approach to international organisations


Dated:19-4-2020
Submitted to: Mam Sehrish
Submitted By: Inam ullah
Roll Number: 54
Semester: 8th

Department of Political Science, University of


the Punjab, Quid-e-Azam Campus, Lahore.
Conventional Approach
The author of the article summarizes the conventional approach to public organisations in this very
first part of the article. He asserts that international organisations aims at public interests. Draws our
attention to the limitations and abuses of this approach by the national leaders.

Secondly, he present new approach, a positive theory of International Organisations, to supplement


the conventional approach. He presents the new approach with its main implications.

Three pillars of conventional approach;


According to the author, conventional approach consists of three elements which are

1- In the absence of International Organisations some states may exploit the common
resources more than the others
2- International Organisations bestow certain perks and privileges upon other states.
3- Cooperative behaviour result in maximum collective benefits.

Types of independences;
1-interdependence through market also called ‘pecuniary’.
2- Non-market interdependence also called technological interdependence.
According to the author, International Organisations may have to be strengthened only
where the growing interdependence is of the non-market type.

Abuses;
According to the author, International Organisations may enable the national governments to
impose negative externalities on their citizens. They exploit international agreements to their own
electoral benefits.

Objections;
The author classified two types of objections regarding international organisations.

1- Monetarist objection
2- Public choice objection

International game theory


The author refers to the prisoner dilemma as international states needed cooperation to avoid
misapprehension because the number of the countries and public suppliers is too small and that
some of them are too large to permit workable competition.

Conclusion;
The author ties here to elaborate the conventional approach as well as the positive theory in order
to make these things more simple and comprehensive . He supplement conventional approach with
positive theory and render evidences for that. He lays out possibilities for how national leaders may
exploit international organisations. How some states would embezzle the common resources in the
absence of International Organisations. This is a developmental and innovative word by the author.

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