The Critical Mass in Collective Action / Gerald Marwell, Pamela Oliver.
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| Language: | English |
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Cambridge University Press,
1993.
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| Series: | Studies in rationality and social change.
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Table of Contents:
- Cover; Half-title ; Title ; Copyright ; Contents; Preface; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ; 1 The critical mass and the problem of collective action ; Background; Development; Structure of the book; 2 Building blocks: goods, groups, and processes ; Characteristics of individuals; Characteristics of groups; A final word; 3 The paradox of group size ; Olson's argument and the empirical problem.
- The paradox of group size and the number of contributorsGroup size and the social process for collective action; 4 The dynamics of production functions ; Types of Production Functions; Results II: interactions among group heterogeneity, interdependence, and production functions; Summary and conclusions; Appendix; 5 Social networks: density, centralization, and cliques ; Study 1; The simulation; Results; Study 2: cliques; Cliques; Simulation; Results and conclusions.
- 6 Selectivity in social networks Selectivity as information; Some numerical examples; Model 1: targeting the big by eliminating the small contributors; Model 2: the trade-off between number mobilized and network size; Conclusions: selection and information; 7 Reach and selectivity as strategies of recruitment ; A formal model of recruitment under conditions of interdependence; Results; Discussion; 8 Unfinished business ; Summary and discussion of results; Further issues.
- One last exhortationREFERENCES ; NAME INDEX ; SUBJECT INDEX.