The Class Dimension of Transnational Public Goods:Diplomatic Incentives and Global Governance Transformation
The distribution disparities of the benefits from transnational public goods among different social strata of external consumers reflect the class attributes of these goods,endowing supply practices with a class dimension.With global inequality shifting from primarily inter-country disparities to inter-class disparities as well as the global dissemination of class-based common awareness,the issues related to social strata and the value of equality have gained strong political appeal which extends from domestic political issues to transnational affairs.The uneven distribution of transnational public goods provided by a country among external consumers creates varied policy incentives,leading to differential feedback on diplomatic actions of the suppliers.Overlaying the class dimension onto traditional quantitative dimension,domain dimension as well as individual and overall relationship dimension puts forward more refined requirements for diplomatic practices of the suppliers and simultaneously endows the suppliers with new policy levers to improve diplomatic environment and lead global governance transformation.
transnational public goodsbenefit distributionsupply incentiveglobal economic governanceglobal studies