The Logic Of Collective Action

Author : Mancur OLSON
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674041666
Total Pages : 199 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book THE LOGIC OF COLLECTIVE ACTION written by Mancur OLSON and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009-06-30 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

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Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Author : Elinor Ostrom
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107569788
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Governing the Commons written by Elinor Ostrom and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-09-23 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tackles one of the most enduring and contentious issues of positive political economy: common pool resource management.

Author : Mancur Olson
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300254067
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Rise and Decline of Nations written by Mancur Olson and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2022-01-01 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A compelling theory on the rationale for the changing fortunes of nations"--Publisher's website.

Author : Duncan J. Watts
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393325423
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Six Degrees: The Science of a Connected Age written by Duncan J. Watts and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2004-01-27 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Nicholas Rescher
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Pre
ISBN 13 : 0822975653
Total Pages : 237 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Logic of Decision and Action written by Nicholas Rescher and published by University of Pittsburgh Pre. This book was released on 1967-11-15 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The four main essays in this volume investigate new sectors of the theory of decision, preference, act-characteristics, and action analysis. Herbert A. Simon applies tools developed in the theory of decision-making to the logic of action, and thereby develops a novel concept of heuristic power. Adapting ideas from utility and decision theory, Nicholas Rescher proposes a logic of preference by which conflicting theories proposed by G. H. von Wright, R. M. Chisholm, and others can be systematized. Donald Davidson discusses difficulties in specifying the structure of action sentences to elucidate how their meaning depends on that structure. G. H. von Wright devises a method for describing each “state of the world” that results from an action, in a revision of his own earlier work. Additionally, a study of the logic of norms by Alan Ross Anderson is presented as an appendix, along with an appendix by Rescher outlining the aspects of action.

Author : Steven J. Balla
Publisher : Oxford Handbooks
ISBN 13 : 0199646139
Total Pages : 673 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Classics in Public Policy and Administration written by Steven J. Balla and published by Oxford Handbooks. This book was released on 2015 with total page 673 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : William Ferguson
Publisher : Stanford Economics and Finance
ISBN 13 : 9780804770033
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Collective Action and Exchange written by William Ferguson and published by Stanford Economics and Finance. This book was released on 2013-07-24 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Collective Action and Exchange: A Game-Theoretic Approach to Contemporary Political Economy, William D. Ferguson presents a comprehensive political economy text aimed at advanced undergraduates in economics and graduate students in the social sciences. The text utilizes collective action as a unifying concept, arguing that collective-action problems lie at the foundation of market success, market failure, economic development, and the motivations for policy. Ferguson draws on information economics, social preference theory, cognition theory, institutional economics, as well as political and policy theory to develop this approach. The text uses classical, evolutionary, and epistemic game theory, along with basic social network analysis, as modeling frameworks. These models effectively bind the ideas presented, generating a coherent theoretic approach to political economy that stresses sometimes overlooked implications.

Author : W. Lance Bennett
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107025745
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Logic of Connective Action written by W. Lance Bennett and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-08-26 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Helen Margetts
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691177929
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Political Turbulence written by Helen Margetts and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2017-09-05 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.