The Logic of Collective Action
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Author | : Mancur OLSON |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 199 |
Release | : 2009-06-30 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 0674041666 |
This book develops an original theory of group and organizational behavior that cuts across disciplinary lines and illustrates the theory with empirical and historical studies of particular organizations. Applying economic analysis to the subjects of the political scientist, sociologist, and economist, Mancur Olson examines the extent to which individuals who share a common interest find it in their individual interest to bear the costs of the organizational effort.
Author | : D. Reisman |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 351 |
Release | : 1990-01-21 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 023038997X |
Individuals make decisions but they do not do so in a social vacuum. The goods they buy are frequently status-symbols in a zero-sum game which some will win and some must lose. Their consumption of commodities is subject to the constraint that what one can do, all cannot. The pressure of coalitions and interest groups, the self- interest of politicians and bureaucrats may all work against a solution being found for some of the most urgent social and economic problems of our times. These problems form the centrepiece of the economic approach to social interaction that has been pioneered by Anthony Downs, Mancur Olson and Fred Hirsch. This book seeks to examine and evaluate their important theories of collective action.
Author | : Elinor Ostrom |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 297 |
Release | : 2015-09-23 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1107569788 |
Tackles one of the most enduring and contentious issues of positive political economy: common pool resource management.
Author | : Mancur Olson |
Publisher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 296 |
Release | : 2022-01-01 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 0300254067 |
"A compelling theory on the rationale for the changing fortunes of nations"--Publisher's website.
Author | : Steven J. Balla |
Publisher | : Oxford Handbooks |
Total Pages | : 673 |
Release | : 2015 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0199646139 |
This Handbook brings together a collection of leading international authors to reflect on the influence of central contributions, or classics, that have shaped the development of the field of public policy and administration. The Handbook reflects on a wide range of key contributions to the field, selected on the basis of their international and wider disciplinary impact. Focusing on classics that contributed significantly to the field over the second half of the 20th century, it offers insights into works that have explored aspects of the policy process, of particular features of bureaucracy, and of administrative and policy reforms. Each classic is discussed by a leading international scholars. They offer unique insights into the ways in which individual classics have been received in scholarly debates and disciplines, how classics have shaped evolving research agendas, and how the individual classics continue to shape contemporary scholarly debates. In doing so, this volume offers a novel approach towards considering the various central contributions to the field. The Handbook offers students of public policy and administration state-of-the-art insights into the enduring impact of key contributions to the field.
Author | : Duncan J. Watts |
Publisher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | : 376 |
Release | : 2004-01-27 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 0393325423 |
Watts, one of the principal architects of network theory, sets out to explain the innovative research that he and other scientists are spearheading to create a blueprint of this connected planet.
Author | : W. Lance Bennett |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 257 |
Release | : 2013-08-26 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1107025745 |
The Logic of Connective Action shows how political action is coordinated and power is organized in communication-based networks, and what political outcomes may result.
Author | : R. Douglas Arnold |
Publisher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 298 |
Release | : 1990-01-01 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9780300056594 |
Congress regularly enacts laws that benefit particular groups or localities while imposing costs on everyone else. Sometimes, however, Congress breaks free of such parochial concerns and enacts bills that serve the general public, not just special interest groups. In this important and original book, R. Douglas Arnold offers a theory that explains not only why special interests frequently triumph but also why the general public sometimes wins. By showing how legislative leaders build coalitions for both types of programs, he illuminates recent legislative decisions in such areas as economic, tax, and energy policy. Arnold's theory of policy making rests on a reinterpretation of the relationship between legislators' actions and their constituents' policy preferences. Most scholars explore the impact that citizens' existing policy preferences have on legislators' decisions. They ignore citizens who have no opinions because they assume that uninformed citizens cannot possibly affect legislators' choices. Arnold examines the influence of citizens' potential preferences, however, and argues that legislators also respond to these preferences in order to avoid future electoral problems. He shows how legislators estimate the political consequences of their voting decisions, taking into account both the existing preferences of attentive citizens and the potential preferences of inattentive citizens. He then analyzes how coalition leaders manipulate the legislative situation in order to make it attractive for legislators to support a general interest bill.
Author | : Helen Margetts |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 297 |
Release | : 2017-09-05 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0691177929 |
How social media is giving rise to a chaotic new form of politics As people spend increasing proportions of their daily lives using social media, such as Twitter and Facebook, they are being invited to support myriad political causes by sharing, liking, endorsing, or downloading. Chain reactions caused by these tiny acts of participation form a growing part of collective action today, from neighborhood campaigns to global political movements. Political Turbulence reveals that, in fact, most attempts at collective action online do not succeed, but some give rise to huge mobilizations—even revolutions. Drawing on large-scale data generated from the Internet and real-world events, this book shows how mobilizations that succeed are unpredictable, unstable, and often unsustainable. To better understand this unruly new force in the political world, the authors use experiments that test how social media influence citizens deciding whether or not to participate. They show how different personality types react to social influences and identify which types of people are willing to participate at an early stage in a mobilization when there are few supporters or signals of viability. The authors argue that pluralism is the model of democracy that is emerging in the social media age—not the ordered, organized vision of early pluralists, but a chaotic, turbulent form of politics. This book demonstrates how data science and experimentation with social data can provide a methodological toolkit for understanding, shaping, and perhaps even predicting the outcomes of this democratic turbulence.