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The logic of collective action :public goods and the theory ofgroups

Mancur Olson
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The article was published on 1971-01-01 and is currently open access. It has received 6455 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Public good & Collective action.

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Collective Sanctions and the Creation of Prisoner's Dilemma Norms'

TL;DR: In this article, the role of regulatory interests in norm emergence is analyzed in a system of collective sanctions in which, when and individual violates or complies with a rule, not merely the individual but other memgers of that person's group as well are collectively punished of rewarded by an external agent.
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Liberating the Intellectual Domain From the Practice: Public Relations, Activism, and the Role of the Scholar

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Regulating American Industries: Markets, Politics, and the Institutional Determinants of Fire Insurance Regulation1

TL;DR: The authors assesses three approaches to state regulation: capture theory, interest group analyses, and neo-institutional research, and develop a theory of how political and institutional conditions shape industries' governance options.
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Democratic Competition and Terrorist Activity

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that the main motivation for terrorist attacks in democracies is intergroup dynamics, with terrorist groups of various ideologies competing with one another for limited political influence, and they find preliminary support for the hypothesis that intergroup competition, motivated by the competition of the political regime, explains an increase in terrorist incidents originating in a state.
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The Role of Collective Identification in Social Movement Participation: A Panel Study in the Context of the German Gay Movement

TL;DR: Regression analyses including cross-lagged panel analyses clearly confirmed the hypothesized unique predictive value of identification with a formal social movement organization above and beyond the role the collective, normative, and reward motives traditionally considered in social movement research.