State and Laid-Off Workers in Reform China: The Silence and Collective...

The China Journal;  January 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ...State and Laid-Off Workers in Reform...Silence and Collective Action of the Retrenched...of China's laid-off workers has been much...workers take collective action while some...survey of 724 laid-off workers undertaken...took part in ...

The Archaeology of Collective Action

Southeastern Archaeology;  July 1, 2008 ;     700+ words ...The Archaeology of Collective Action. DEAN J. SAITTA. University...lecturing. The Archaeology of Collective Action evokes this same feeling...book, along with examples of collective action archaeology culminating in...

Cooperation without trust: overcoming collective action barriers to...

Policy Studies Journal;  February 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ...The problem of collective action has captivated political scientists...which groups might avoid this collective action dilemma. Recently, much of...place despite any barriers to collective action that may exist. Although numerous...

'A behavioral approach to the rational choice theory of collective action:...

American Political Science Review;  March 1, 1998 ;     700+ words ......ancestors learning how to undertake collective action to solve social dilemmas. Successive...children and to craft rules to support collective action that produces public goods and avoids...contemporaries have learned about engaging in collective action for mutual defense, child ...

Village Politics: Heterogeneity, Leadership and Collective Action.

Journal of Development Studies;  June 1, 2000 ;     700+ words ......heterogeneity and the success in collective action was found, except when heterogeneity...elite groups enhanced capacity for collective action. Second, it was when heterogeneity...dimensions of heterogeneity that collective action became difficult to achieve, such...

Collective Action in the European Union: Interests and the New Politics of...

Perspectives on Political Science;  March 22, 1999 ;     500 words ......Justin, and Mark Aspinwall, eds. Collective Action in the European Union: Interests...of the causes of transnational collective action among interest groups. It concludes that collective action is far more complex than conventional...

The mobilizer's dilemma: crisis, empowerment, and collective action.

Social Forces;  March 1, 2003 ;     700+ words ......difficult to convince people to take collective action to prevent an impending catastrophe...this study, we propose a theory of collective action that points to a mobilizer's dilemma...1983) that confronts participants in collective action. The social dilemma at issue is a...

Group size, heterogeneity and collective action outcomes: Evidence from...

International Journal of Sustainable Development and World Ecology;  December 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ......size and heterogeneity in affecting collective action outcomes, this study analyzed associations...be engaged in meaningful forms of collective action that produce positive outcomes? Researchers...role in determining the success of collective action is largely unknown. Some ...

Power, identity, and collective action in social exchange *.

Social Forces;  June 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ...Bringing Back Collective Action Bertrand Russell (1938:12...argues that it is time to bring collective action back in to the structural...two mechanisms related to collective action, one related to the motivation...

collective action problem

The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Politics;      211 words ...collective action problem Any situation in which...Prisoners' Dilemma , another class of collective action problem is the Assurance Game...Gallery at twelve noon, then the collective action problem is optimally solved; otherwise...

Insurgent Collective Action and Civil War in El Salvador

Special Warfare;  December 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ...Insurgent Collective Action and Civil War in El Salvador...308 pages. $23. In Insurgent Collective Action and Civil War in El Salvador...factors that led to insurgent collective action in El Salvador. A thorough...

Innovation in Natural Resource Management: the Role of Property Rights and...

Journal of Development Studies;  October 1, 2003 ;     700+ words ......7143 3 Questions of property rights, collective action and technology adoption have been...agricultural technologies, and whether collective action is a viable approach to achieving...ways in which property rights and collective action impact on the adoption of agricultural...

UNION RIGHTS : COLLECTIVE ACTION, A FUNDAMENTAL RIGHT THAT HAS LIMITS.

European Report;  December 19, 2007 ;     608 words ......December, on unions' right to organise collective action in relation to freedom of establishment...workers failed and the union began collective action in the form of a blockade of all...Court recognises the legitimacy of collective action, even if it consists of a blockade...

Effective local institutions for collective action in Arctic communities...

Northern Review;  June 22, 2005 ;     700+ words ......effective local institutions for collective action. Less clear are the factors that foster collective action among community members and how...Effective Local Institutions for Collective Action in Arctic Communities. As an interdisciplinary...

Policy Networks as Collective Action.

Policy Studies Journal;  September 22, 2000 ;     700+ words ......policy network approach is to apply collective action theory and explicitly regard different...network concepts as expressions of collective action. Six tentative building blocks of...network concepts as expressions of collective action. While there is no network theory...