Collective Action in the United States
Concept of Collective Action
In the U.S., in the context of Political Participation, Interest Groups and Lobbying, Collective Action has the following meaning: Most of the kinds of goods, services, policies, and goals we care about socially, economically, and politically require that people work together to produce, provide, implement, or achieve them. The problem of collective action is the problem of organizing collective efforts in pursuit of jointly desired ends. Market mechanisms are an important type of collective action providing us with a great many of the things we value. But markets cannot provide everything we collectively value, particularly things best characterized as public goods, like clean air or democratic government. These require different approaches to organizing collective action than market mechanisms alone provide. (Source of this definition of Collective Action : University of Texas)
Collective Action
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- Political Participation
- Interest Groups
- Lobbying