Talk:Collective action

"Theory of the State"
I've removed the sentence "This is further studied in the Theory of the State", which had already been queried in an inline HTML comment by another editor. Whose theory of the State is this supposed to be? Is this Marx's theory of the State, Locke's, Catharine MacKinnon's, or someone else's? Given the use of capital letters in the link, might it be a book or a paper? Or possibly even the seemingly anonymous website with that name? -- The Anome (talk) 00:12, 12 February 2010 (UTC)

Dr. Fonseca's comment on this article
Dr. Fonseca has reviewed this Wikipedia page, and provided us with the following comments to improve its quality:

"Collective action refers to action taken together by a group of people whose goal is to enhance their status and achieve a common objective.[1] It is enacted by a representative of the group.[2]

The last sentence is incorrect and should be deleted from the opening paragraph of this entry. Collective action problems are, by the very definition of the word, collective: common-pool resource problems are the prototypical example. Therefore, it makes no sense to define them as being enacted by a member of the group, regardless of there being isolated cases where one individual takes charge of decision-making.

This article's structure could be improved. While the social identity literature has greatly contributed to understanding collective action problems, it is not the primary literature in this field. The discussion of Olson's work should precede the discussion of the contribution by social identity literature to this field."

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 * Reference : Surajeet Chakravarty & Miguel A. Fonseca & Sudeep Ghosh & Sugata Marjit, 2015. "Religious fragmentation, social identity and cooperation: Evidence from a artefactual field experiment in India," Discussion Papers 1501, Exeter University, Department of Economics.

ExpertIdeasBot (talk) 16:08, 19 May 2016 (UTC)

Dr. Fujii's comment on this article
Dr. Fujii has reviewed this Wikipedia page, and provided us with the following comments to improve its quality:

"I can only comment on the section on public good. The description is fair but collective action is not limited to the provision of public goods or other collective consumption but potentially covers joint production. It would be nice if more substance could be added to this page. The current description is very superficial.

Collective action is a term also in law. So, this page could expand to the usage of collective action in law."

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 * Reference : Tomoki Fujii & Ryuichiro Ishikawa, 2012. "A note on separability and intra-household resource allocation in a collective household model," Working Papers 06-2012, Singapore Management University, School of Economics.

ExpertIdeasBot (talk) 16:53, 19 May 2016 (UTC)

Dr. Cardenas's comment on this article
Dr. Cardenas has reviewed this Wikipedia page, and provided us with the following comments to improve its quality:

"Do not agree with this statement about collective action: " It is enacted by a representative of the group It lacks a similar entry as "public goods" for "common-pool resource problems" It could benefit from a discusion of Ostrom's work on colective action and her IAD approach to it. Also, there is a wealth of experimental literatura that could help improve this entry"

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 * Reference : Juan Camilo Cardenas, 2009. "Social Norms and Behavior in the Local Commons Through the Lens of Field Experiments," DOCUMENTOS CEDE 006650, UNIVERSIDAD DE LOS ANDES-CEDE.

ExpertIdeasBot (talk) 19:04, 15 June 2016 (UTC)