Wikipedia:United States Education Program/Courses/Political Participation (Tess Marchant-Shapiro)/Course description

Course description
This course examines how and why citizens participate in politics through organizing groups, campaigning for candidates, and voting in elections. At the heart of the study of political participation is the collective action problem: How do individual citizens work together to solve collective problems? Although it may be intuitive that it is easier for groups to solve problems than individuals, how individuals are mobilized to co-operate is less intuitive. In this course we address different theoretical frameworks which are used to explain that co-operation.

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