Collective Action -- Adam Brown, BYU Political Science

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Summaries tagged Collective Action

Alchian and Demsetz: Property Right Paradigm
Baron: Political action versus voluntarism in social dilemmas and aid for the needy
Bates: Markets and states in tropical Africa
Cox and McCubbins: Legislative leviathan
Demsetz: Toward a theory of property rights
Edelman: Social movements
Geddes: Politician's Dilemma
Gourevitch: The governance problem in international relations
Hansen: The political economy of group membership
Hardin: Collective action
Kavka: Hobbesian moral and political theory
Kiewiet and McCubbins: The Logic of Delegation
Leighley: Group membership and the mobilization of political participation
Olson: The logic of collective action
Popkin: Public choice and rural development
Schattschneider: The semisovereign people
Schlesinger: On the theory of party organization
Stevens: The economics of collective choice
Truman: The governmental process
Walker: The origins and maintenance of interest groups in America
Wilson: Political organizations

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This portion of my website (/notes/) is the site formerly known as wikisum.com. Many years ago, my friends in graduate school and I would routinely share our reading notes with one another. We all read each article, but we crowdsourced the responsibility of summarizing our readings. When we were preparing for our comprehensive exams, I collected many of these summaries from peers and imported them into a wiki (wikisummary, or wikisum), hoping it would take off and attract hordes of graduate students and political scientists interested in maintaining an up-to-date knowledge base of all political science has to offer. It turns out I was too optimistic. Hundreds of people read the summaries, but almost nobody contributed new ones. Eventually, I quit renewing the wikisum domain and converted the contents into this static website. The summaries grow more dated each year, but since they might still have some use, they're still here—even if the name "wikisum" has become a bit of a misnomer. Enjoy.