Author : Mancur OLSON
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 13,8 MB
Release : 2009-06-30
Category : 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.
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Page : 186 pages
File Size : 43,59 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Groups
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Author : Elinor Ostrom
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 42,17 MB
Release : 2015-09-23
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1107569788
Tackles one of the most enduring and contentious issues of positive political economy: common pool resource management.
Author : D. Reisman
Publisher : Springer
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 11,89 MB
Release : 1990-01-21
Category : 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 : Mancur Olson
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 49,83 MB
Release : 2022-01-01
Category : 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
Page : 673 pages
File Size : 19,6 MB
Release : 2015
Category : 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
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 21,43 MB
Release : 2004-02-17
Category : Science
ISBN : 0393076121
The pioneering young scientist whose work on the structure of small worlds has triggered an avalanche of interest in networks. In this remarkable book, Duncan 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 our connected planet. Whether they bind computers, economies, or terrorist organizations, networks are everywhere in the real world, yet only recently have scientists attempted to explain their mysterious workings. From epidemics of disease to outbreaks of market madness, from people searching for information to firms surviving crisis and change, from the structure of personal relationships to the technological and social choices of entire societies, Watts weaves together a network of discoveries across an array of disciplines to tell the story of an explosive new field of knowledge, the people who are building it, and his own peculiar path in forging this new science.
Author : W. Lance Bennett
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 43,32 MB
Release : 2013-08-26
Category : 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 : John Agbonifo
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 10,86 MB
Release : 2018-07-11
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1317142446
Environmental degradation is a fast-growing problem that not only threatens to erode future development and undermine economic prosperity, but also victimizes and displaces ordinary peoples and communities in some of the most fragile areas of the world. Often grassroots opposition and mobilization is seen through a secular lens, implying that collective action is merely material and provincial. In this book John Agbonifo argues for a decolonization of the environment and to see the environment from the perspective of local communities. He examines the case of the Ogoni struggle against the Shell oil company, and asks how may we understand the struggle of the Ogoni against the state and Shell? Was the conflict merely about a minority ethnic drive at securing provincial advantages in distributional matters, or the legitimate actions of a local community aimed at preserving its environment and livelihood? Exploring the material and symbolic, provincial and nationalist dimensions of Ogoni motivation, Agbonifo's book is the first serious attempt to discuss these issues. The book will appeal to scholars and students of the Niger Delta conflicts, resource-related conflicts and social movements, in Africa and elsewhere. Those researching in the fields of development studies, political geography, civil society and collective action will also find it useful.
Author : R. Douglas Arnold
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 35,91 MB
Release : 1990-01-01
Category : 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.
