A Common Good Approach to Development

Acknowledgements		vii

Introduction		1
Mathias Nebel and Oscar Garza-Vázquez

PART I: A COMMON GOOD APPROACH TO DEVELOPMENT		25
Introduction to Part I		27
Mathias Nebel and Oscar Garza-Vázquez

1.	The Theoretical Framework: Common Goods and Systems of Common Goods	29
	Mathias Nebel
2.	From Theory to Practice: A Matrix of Common Good Dynamics	57
	Mathias Nebel and Jorge Medina Delgadillo
3.	Design and Reflection on the Metric of Common Dynamics	103
	Oscar Garza-Vázquez and Viviana Ramírez

PART II: DISCUSSING THE NORMATIVE ELEMENTS OF COMMON GOOD DYNAMICS		141
Introduction to Part II		143
Mathias Nebel and Oscar Garza-Vázquez

4.	Collective Agency Freedom as the Engine of a Common Good Dynamic: A Conceptual Proposal for Measurement	145
	Oscar Garza-Vázquez
5.	The Systemic Outcome of Common Good Dynamics: Humanity	179
	Clemens Sedmak
6.	Governance, Commoning and the Unequal Terms of Recognition	201
	Tom De Herdt and Denis Augustin Samnick
7.	Organising Common Good Dynamics: Justice	219
	Rodolfo De la Torre
8.	Development and Stability	251
	Flavio Comim

PART III: CASE STUDIES AND APPLICATIONS		273
Introduction to Part III		275
Mathias Nebel and Oscar Garza-Vázquez

9.	Do We Need a Common Good Approach to Development?	277
	Helen Alford
10.	Bangsamoro: A Case Study in Governing for the Common Good	293
	Patrick Riordan S.J.
11.	Assessing the Nexus of the Common Good: The Case of the Municipality of Atlixco, Mexico	321
	Valente Tallabs and Mathias Nebel
12.	Assessing the Transformative Impact of Love-Based Microsocial Communities: From Existential Peripheries into the Nexus of the Common Good	347
	Simona Beretta

List of Illustrations		379
Index		385

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