Cooperation And Collective Action

Author : David M. Carballo
Publisher : University Press of Colorado
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2012-12-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781457174087

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Cooperation and Collective Action by David M. Carballo Pdf

"[Cooperation research] is one of the busiest and most exciting areas of transdisciplinary science right now, linking evolution, ecology and social science. . . this is the first major work or collection to address linkages between archaeology and cooperation research."—Michael E. Smith, Arizona State University Past archaeological literature on cooperation theory has emphasized competition's role in cultural evolution. As a result, bottom-up possibilities for group cooperation have been under theorized in favor of models stressing top-down leadership, while evidence from a range of disciplines has demonstrated humans to effectively sustain cooperative undertakings through a number of social norms and institutions. Cooperation and Collective Action is the first volume to focus on the use of archaeological evidence to understand cooperation and collective action. Disentangling the motivations and institutions that foster group cooperation among competitive individuals remains one of the few great conundrums within evolutionary theory. The breadth and material focus of archaeology provide a much needed complement to existing research on cooperation and collective action, which thus far has relied largely on game-theoretic modeling, surveys of college students from affluent countries, brief ethnographic experiments, and limited historic cases. In Cooperation and Collective Action, diverse case studies address the evolution of the emergence of norms, institutions, and symbols of complex societies through the last 10,000 years. This book is an important contribution to the literature on cooperation in human societies that will appeal to archaeologists and other scholars interested in cooperation research.

Author : Richard E. Blanton,Lane F. Fargher
Publisher : University Press of Colorado
Page : 435 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2016-12-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781607325147

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How Humans Cooperate by Richard E. Blanton,Lane F. Fargher Pdf

In How Humans Cooperate, Richard E. Blanton and Lane F. Fargher take a new approach to investigating human cooperation, developed from the vantage point of an "anthropological imagination." Drawing on the discipline’s broad and holistic understanding of humans in biological, social, and cultural dimensions and across a wide range of temporal and cultural variation, the authors unite psychological and institutional approaches by demonstrating the interplay of institution building and cognitive abilities of the human brain. Blanton and Fargher develop an approach that is strongly empirical, historically deep, and more synthetic than other research designs, using findings from fields as diverse as neurobiology, primatology, ethnography, history, art history, and archaeology. While much current research on collective action pertains to local-scale cooperation, How Humans Cooperate puts existing theories to the test at larger scales in markets, states, and cities throughout the Old and New Worlds. This innovative book extends collective action theory beyond Western history and into a broadly cross-cultural dimension, places cooperation in the context of large and complex human societies, and demonstrates the interplay of collective action and aspects of human cognitive ability. By extending the scope and content of collective action theory, the authors find a fruitful new path to understanding human cooperation.

Author : Sarah Gillinson,Overseas Development Institute (London, England)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 35 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2004-02-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0850037093

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Why Cooperate? by Sarah Gillinson,Overseas Development Institute (London, England) Pdf

Author : David M. Carballo
Publisher : University Press of Colorado
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2012-12-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781607322085

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Cooperation and Collective Action by David M. Carballo Pdf

Past archaeological literature on cooperation theory has emphasized competition's role in cultural evolution. As a result, bottom-up possibilities for group cooperation have been under theorized in favor of models stressing top-down leadership, while evidence from a range of disciplines has demonstrated humans to effectively sustain cooperative undertakings through a number of social norms and institutions. Cooperation and Collective Action is the first volume to focus on the use of archaeological evidence to understand cooperation and collective action. Disentangling the motivations and institutions that foster group cooperation among competitive individuals remains one of the few great conundrums within evolutionary theory. The breadth and material focus of archaeology provide a much needed complement to existing research on cooperation and collective action, which thus far has relied largely on game-theoretic modeling, surveys of college students from affluent countries, brief ethnographic experiments, and limited historic cases. In Cooperation and Collective Action, diverse case studies address the evolution of the emergence of norms, institutions, and symbols of complex societies through the last 10,000 years. This book is an important contribution to the literature on cooperation in human societies that will appeal to archaeologists and other scholars interested in cooperation research.

Author : Alison Alkon,Julie Guthman
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2017-06-27
Category : SOCIAL SCIENCE
ISBN : 9780520292147

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The New Food Activism by Alison Alkon,Julie Guthman Pdf

"New and exciting forms of food activism are emerging as supporters of sustainable agriculture increasingly recognize the need for a broader, more strategic and more politicized food politics that engages with questions of social, racial, and economic justice. This book highlights examples of campaigns to restrict industrial agriculture's use of pesticides and other harmful technologies, struggles to improve the pay and conditions of workers throughout the food system, and alternative projects that seek to de-emphasize notions of individualism and private ownership. Grounded in over a decade of scholarly critique of food activism, this volume seeks to answer the question of "what next," inspiring scholars, students, and activists toward collective, cooperative, and oppositional struggles for change."--Provided by publisher.

Author : Atul Pokharel
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2024-02-16
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780197755815

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Beyond Collective Action Problems by Atul Pokharel Pdf

Human history is full of examples of continuously maintained shared infrastructure. Our ability to survive and prosper depends on cooperation at some level, from the irrigation systems that enabled ancient humans to abandon their nomadic lifestyle to the free and open-source software that undergirds the internet. Thus, understanding the conditions under which community governance can be both equitable and sustainable is of critical importance to scholars and policymakers alike. In Beyond Collective Action Problems, Atul Pokharel argues that sustained cooperation depends on user perceptions that the cooperative arrangement is fair. Pokharel elaborates a different way to think about sustained cooperation over decades, based on a follow-up of 233 long-running community managed irrigation systems in Nepal--the same cases that were used to understand how groups can overcome collective action problems. Covering nearly forty years of history through these cases, Pokharel introduces the idea of fairness problems to capture the many forms in which the perceived fairness of a form of governance comes to matter to continued cooperation. As he shows, the longer individuals cooperate, the more they become aware of how far their cooperative arrangement has diverged from the initial promise of fairness. This perception of fairness affects their commitment to maintaining the shared resource and participating in the institutions for governing it. Highlighting why eventually perceived fairness matters to sustained cooperation, this book illustrates how the fairness problem underlies successful cooperation over time, making it necessary to look beyond collective action problems.

Author : Elinor Ostrom
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2015-09-23
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781107569782

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Governing the Commons by Elinor Ostrom Pdf

Tackles one of the most enduring and contentious issues of positive political economy: common pool resource management.

Author : Todd Sandler
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2004-07-19
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781139454261

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Global Collective Action by Todd Sandler Pdf

This book examines how nations and other key participants in the global community address problems requiring collective action. The global community has achieved some successes, such as eradicating smallpox, but other efforts to coordinate nations' actions, such as the reduction of drug trafficking, have not been sufficient. This book identifies the factors that promote or inhibit successful collective action at the regional and global level for an ever-growing set of challenges stemming from augmented cross-border flows associated with globalization. Modern principles of collective action are identified and applied to a host of global challenges, including promoting global health, providing foreign assistance, controlling rogue nations, limiting transnational terrorism, and intervening in civil wars. Because many of these concerns involve strategic interactions where choices and consequences are dependent on one's own and others' actions, the book relies, in places, on elementary game theory that is fully introduced for the uninitiated reader.

Author : Spicker, Paul
Publisher : Policy Press
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2019-06-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781447346913

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Thinking Collectively by Spicker, Paul Pdf

What does collectivism mean in social policy? What does thinking collectively imply for policy? In this book, well-respected author Paul Spicker lends a complementary voice to his Reclaiming Individualism, reviewing collectivism as a dimension of political discourse. Breaking down his analysis to examine collectivism through substantive, moral and methodological lenses, he reviews a series of arguments for cooperative effort, solidarity and collective responsibility. Taking a dispassionate and methodical approach, the author explores what collectivism means in social policy and what value it offers to the field.

Author : X. Arrazola,K. Korta,Francis Jeffrey Pelletier
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2013-03-09
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9789401589949

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Discourse, Interaction and Communication by X. Arrazola,K. Korta,Francis Jeffrey Pelletier Pdf

DISCOURSE, INTERACTION, AND COMMUNICATION Co-organized by the Department of Logic and Philosophy of Science and the Institute for Logic, Cognition, Language, and Infonnation (ILCLI) both from the University of the Basque Country, tlle Fourth International Colloquium on Cognitive Science (ICCS-95) gathered at Donostia - San Sebastian ti'om May 3 to 6, 1995, with the following as its main topics: 1. Social Action and Cooperation. 2. Cognitive Approaches in Discourse Processing: Grammatical and Semantical Aspects. 3. Models of Infonnation in Communication Systems. 4. Cognitive Simulation: Scope and Limits. More tllan one hundred researchers from all over the world exchanged their most recent contributions to Cognitive Science in an exceptionally fruitful annosphere. In this volume we include a small though representative sample of tlle main papers. They all were invited papers except the one by Peter Juel Henrichsen, a contributed paper tllat merited tlle IBERDROLA - Gipuzkoako Foru Aldundia: Best Paper Award, set up in ICCS-95 for the first time.

Author : Michael Taylor
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1987-08-13
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0521339901

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The Possibility of Cooperation by Michael Taylor Pdf

This 1987 book offers a critique of the liberal theory of the state, focusing on a detailed study of cooperation in the absence of the state and of other kinds of coercion. The discussion includes an analysis of collective action and of the Prisoners' Dilemma supergame. It is a revised and expanded edition of the author's classic work of rational choice theory Anarchy and Cooperation, originally published with John Wiley in 1976. The analysis has been recast and developed here to make it more accessible to non-mathematical readers and to provide a more comprehensive and self-contained treatment of the theory of collective action. The book will be of interest to a range of readers in political and social philosophy and in economics.

Author : Federico Sturzenegger,Mariano Tommasi
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0262194007

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The Political Economy of Reform by Federico Sturzenegger,Mariano Tommasi Pdf

In this book, Federico Sturzenegger and Mariano Tommasi propose formal models to answer some of the questions raised by the recent reform experience of many Latin American and eastern European countries.

Author : Ernst Hirsch Ballin,Emina Ćerimović,Huub Dijstelbloem,Mathieu Segers
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2020-01-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783030328931

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European Variations as a Key to Cooperation by Ernst Hirsch Ballin,Emina Ćerimović,Huub Dijstelbloem,Mathieu Segers Pdf

This Open Access book offers a novel view on the benefits of a lasting variation between the member states in the EU. In order to bring together thirty very different European states and their citizens, the EU will have to offer more scope for variation. Unlike the existing differentiation by means of opt-outs and deviations, variation is not a concession intended to resolve impasses in negotiations; it is, rather, a different structuring principle. It takes differences in needs and in democratically supported convictions seriously. A common core remains necessary, specifically concerning the basic principles of democracy, rule of law, fundamental rights and freedoms, and the common market. By taking this approach, the authors remove the pressure to embrace uniformity from the debate about the EU’s future. The book discusses forms of variation that fall both within and outside the current framework of European Union Treaties. The scope for these variations is mapped out in three domains: the internal market; the euro; and asylum, migration and border control.

Author : Diana Suhardiman,Alan Nicol,Everisto Mapedza
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 51,9 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?

Author : Anders Biel,Mark Snyder,Tom R. Tyler,Mark Van Vugt
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781135124311

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Cooperation in Modern Society by Anders Biel,Mark Snyder,Tom R. Tyler,Mark Van Vugt Pdf

Why do so many people volunteer to help others in need in society today? What makes people give up the convenience of driving their car to benefit a better environment? And why are citizens, in general, quite prepared to pay taxes to ensure adequate health care, and support for the elderly and unemployed? These are examples of a more fundamental question addressed in this book: why do people cooperate for the welfare of their community, state, or organization? Cooperation in Modern Society is a unique collection of contributions from internationally reputed scholars across the social sciences.