Collective Action And Exchange

Author : William D. Ferguson
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 447 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2013-07-10
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780804785563

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Collective Action and Exchange by William D. Ferguson Pdf

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 : William D. Ferguson
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2020-05-05
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781503611979

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The Political Economy of Collective Action, Inequality, and Development by William D. Ferguson Pdf

This book examines how a society that is trapped in stagnation might initiate and sustain economic and political development. In this context, progress requires the reform of existing arrangements, along with the complementary evolution of informal institutions. It involves enhancing state capacity, balancing broad avenues for political input, and limiting concentrated private and public power. This juggling act can only be accomplished by resolving collective-action problems (CAPs), which arise when individuals pursue interests that generate undesirable outcomes for society at large. Merging and extending key perspectives on CAPs, inequality, and development, this book constructs a flexible framework to investigate these complex issues. By probing four basic hypotheses related to knowledge production, distribution, power, and innovation, William D. Ferguson offers an analytical foundation for comparing and evaluating approaches to development policy. Navigating the theoretical terrain that lies between simplistic hierarchies of causality and idiosyncratic case studies, this book promises an analytical lens for examining the interactions between inequality and development. Scholars and researchers across economic development and political economy will find it to be a highly useful guide.

Author : Simon Gächter,Ernst Fehr (Wirtschaftswissenschaftler)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 25 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:891496449

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Collective Action as a Social Exchange by Simon Gächter,Ernst Fehr (Wirtschaftswissenschaftler) Pdf

Author : Russell Hardin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2015-12-03
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781135433093

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Collective Action by Russell Hardin Pdf

Public choice, an important subdiscipline in the field of political theory, seeks to understand how people and societies make decisions affecting their collective lives. Relying heavily on theoretical models of decision making, public choice postulates that people act in their individual interests in making collective decisions. As it happens, however, reality does not mirror theory, and people often act contrary to what the principal public choice models suggest. In this book, Russell Hardin looks beyond the models to find out why people choose to act together in situations that the models find quite hopeless. He uses three constructs of modern political economy--public goods, the Prisoner's Dilemma, and game theory--to test public choice theories against real world examples of collective action. These include movements important in American society in the past few decades--civil rights, the Vietnam War, women's rights, and environmental concerns. This classic work on public choice will be of interest to theoreticians and graduate students in the fields of public choice, political economy, or political theory--and to those in other disciplines who are concerned with the problem of collective action in social contexts.

Author : Russell Hardin
Publisher : Resources for the Future
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Collective behavior
ISBN : 0801828198

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Collective Action by Russell Hardin Pdf

First Published in 1982. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : James Coleman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2017-07-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351479707

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The Mathematics of Collective Action by James Coleman Pdf

Philosophers, social scientists, and laymen have used two perspectives in analyzing social action. One sees man's action as the result of causal forces, and the other sees action as purposive and goal directed. Mathematical treatment of social action has shown this same dichotomy. Some models of behavior describe a causal process, in which there is no place for intention or purpose. Most stochastic models of behavior, whether individual or group, are like this. Another body of work, however, employs purpose, anticipation of some future state, and action designed to maximize the proximity to some goal. Classical microeconomic theory, statistical decision theory, and game theory exemplify this direction.This book examines these two directions of work, and makes original contributions to the second. An introductory chapter outlines these two bodies of work, and casts them in a common frame, to display their similarities and differences. Chapter 2 reviews at length recent work in stochastic processes that makes up the first body of work, which sees social action as the resultant of causal forces. The remaining chapters develop a mathematical framework for the study of systems of social action using a purposive theoretical base. These chapters are designed particularly to contribute to the study of collective decisions, a form of social action that has proved particularly challenging to theoretical analysis. First published in 1973, this became a significant work both in problem solving and in the future career of the author. It is of continuing importance to researchers and students interested in statistical analysis.

Author : Gerald Marwell,Pamela Oliver
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1993-03-26
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780521308397

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The Critical Mass in Collective Action by Gerald Marwell,Pamela Oliver Pdf

The problem of collective action is that each group member wants other members to make necessary sacrifices while he or she 'free rides', reaping the benefits of collective action without doing the work. Therefore, no one does the work and the common interest is not realized. This book analyses the social pressure whereby groups solve the problem of collective action.

Author : Bill Jordan
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2022-07-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000624335

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Collective Action by Bill Jordan Pdf

This book examines how different levels and forms of human collectivity have interacted, voluntarily or coercively, and how these transformed societies and polities. Every size and type of human collective involve co-operation among members and competition with other groups. The two most recent trends in human relations – individualism and economic globalisation – have contributed to authoritarianism in politics and inequality among citizens. This book analyses how collective action might offset the most destructive consequences for well-being of these two tendencies. It explores these manifestations of collective action and their impact on social relations and social policies in the developed world. Further, the volume sets out a programme for more progressive and egalitarian future for global populations. Engaging, accessible and transdisciplinary, this book will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of politics and public policy, sociology, social psychology, social policy and social work, as well as political philosophy, political economy and migration studies.

Author : David L. Miller
Publisher : Waveland Press
Page : 608 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2013-08-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781478610953

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Introduction to Collective Behavior and Collective Action by David L. Miller Pdf

David Millers expanded third edition makes it the definitive source on collective behavior and collective action. Up-to-date and meticulously researched, this popular volume continues to provide a systematic overview of theory and research. Each topic is meaningfully linked to the appropriate theories of collective behavior (mass hysteria, emergent-norm, and value-added perspectives) and collective action (social-behavioral interactionist, resource mobilization, and value-added perspectives). Rumor, mass hysteria, fads and fashion, UFOs, sports, migrations, disasters, riots, protest, and social movements are among the topics presented in a unique side-by-side presentation of the two disciplines. In an engaging, accessible style, Miller offers detailed discussion of classic sociological studies interspersed with intriguing modern-day examples that students will enjoy reading. His thorough topical treatment effectively reduces the need for outside readings.

Author : John Rogers Commons
Publisher : Madison : University of Wisconsin Press, 1970 [c1950]
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Political Science
ISBN : STANFORD:36105041608295

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The Economics of Collective Action by John Rogers Commons Pdf

Author : John DeLamater,Amanda Ward
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 649 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2013-08-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789400767720

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Handbook of Social Psychology by John DeLamater,Amanda Ward Pdf

This handbook provides a broad overview of the field of social psychology and up-to-date coverage of current social psychological topics. It reflects the recent and substantial development of the field, both with regard to theory and empirical research. It starts out by covering major theoretical perspectives, including the inter actionist, identity, social exchange, social structure and the person perspectives. Next, it discusses development and socialization in childhood, adolescence and adulthood. In addition to updated discussions of topics that were included in the first edition, the part examining personal processes includes entirely new topics, such as social psychology and the body and individual agency and social motivation. Interpersonal processes are discussed from a contemporary perspective with a focus on stress and health. The final section examines the person in sociocultural context and includes another topic new to the second edition, the social psychology of race and gender and intersectionality.

Author : Peter Hedström,Peter Bearman
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 795 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2011-01-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780191615238

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The Oxford Handbook of Analytical Sociology by Peter Hedström,Peter Bearman Pdf

Analytical sociology is a strategy for understanding the social world. It is concerned with explaining important social facts such as network structures, patterns of residential segregation, typical beliefs, cultural tastes, and common ways of acting. It explains such facts by detailing in clear and precise ways the mechanisms through which the social facts were brought about. Making sense of the relationship between micro and macro thus is one of the central concerns of analytical sociology. The approach is a contemporary incarnation of Robert K. Merton's notion of middle-range theory and presents a vision of sociological theory as a tool-box of semi-general theories each of which is adequate for explaining certain types of phenomena. The Handbook brings together some of the most prominent sociologists in the world. Some of the chapters focus on action and interaction as the cogs and wheels of social processes, while others consider the dynamic social processes that these actions and interactions bring about.

Author : Peter James Burke
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0804753474

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Contemporary Social Psychological Theories by Peter James Burke Pdf

This text presents the most important and influential social psychological theories and research programs in contemporary sociology. Original chapters by the scholars who initiated and developed these theoretical perspectives provide full descriptions of each theory, its background, development, and future. The first four chapters cover general approaches, organized around fundamental principles and issues--symbolic interaction, social exchange, distributive justice, and rational choice. The following chapters focus on specific research programs and theories, examining identity, affect, comparison processes, power and dependence, social exchange, status construction, and legitimacy. A concluding chapter provides an analysis of and commentary on the state of the theoretical programs in sociological social psychology. Contributors: Peter J. Burke, Joseph Berger, Coye Cheshire, Karen S. Cook, Pamela Emanuelson, Alexandra Gerbasi, Karen A. Hegtvedt, Michael A. Hogg, Guillermina Jasso, Edward J. Lawler, Michael W. Macy, George J. McCall, Linda D. Molm, Cecilia L. Ridgeway, Dawn T. Robinson, Lynn Smith-Lovin, Jan E. Stets, Jonathan H. Turner, Murray Webster Jr., David Willer, and Morris Zelditch, Jr.

Author : Jeffrey Broadbent
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1999-07-28
Category : Science
ISBN : 0521665744

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Environmental Politics in Japan by Jeffrey Broadbent Pdf

Discusses the growth/environment dilemma in contemporary Japan. -- Preface.

Author : Diana Suhardiman,Alan Nicol,Everisto Mapedza
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2017-09-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781351705240

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Water Governance and Collective Action by Diana Suhardiman,Alan Nicol,Everisto Mapedza Pdf

Collective Action is now recognized as central to addressing the water governance challenge of delivering sustainable development and global environmental benefits. This book examines concepts and practices of collective action that have emerged in recent decades globally. Building on a Foucauldian conception of power, it provides an overview of collective action challenges involved in the sustainable management and development of global freshwater resources through case studies from Africa, South and Southeast Asia and Latin America. The case studies link community-based management of water resources with national decision-making landscapes, transboundary water governance, and global policy discussion on sustainable development, justice and water security. Power and politics are placed at the centre of collective action and water governance discourse, while addressing three core questions: how is collective action shaped by existing power structures and relationships at different scales? What are the kinds of tools and approaches that various actors can take and adopt towards more deliberative processes for collective action? And what are the anticipated outcomes for development processes, the environment and the global resource base of achieving collective action across scales?