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Record Nr.

UNINA9910787403903321

Titolo

Modern dilemmas : understanding collective action in the 21st century / / Dylan Kissane, Alexandru Volacu (editors)

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Stuttgart, Germany : , : Ibidem-Verlag, , [2015]

©2015

ISBN

3-8382-0731-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (373 p.)

Disciplina

320.10923468

Soggetti

Social movements

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

""Table of Contents""; ""List of Figures""; ""List of Tables""; ""Foreword: Collective Dilemmas: Here and Now""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Introduction""; ""THEORETICAL APPROACHES""; ""Chapter One: First and Second Generation Theories of Collective Action""; ""Chapter Two: New Conceptions of Collective Action in the Information Age""; ""Chapter Three: When Olson Gets Entangled: Networks in Political Economy""; ""Chapter Four: Rousseau�s General Will and the Notion of Collective Action""; ""COLLECTIVE ACTION AND RESPONSIBILITY""

""Chapter Five: Climate Change as a �Hard� Case of Collective Responsibility""""Chapter Six: Individual Responsibility for Participation in Collective Action""; ""Chapter Seven: The Morality of Free Riding Behavior�How Do Free Riders Wrong Us, Is It What They Take or How They Take It?""; ""COLLECTIVE ACTION AND PUBLIC POLICIES""; ""Chapter Eight: Models of Global Literacy Development: A South African Case Study of Collective Action""; ""Chapter Nine: Enabling Collective Action in State Programmes: The Case of Community Health Workers in Rural India""

""Afterword: Working Together on the Challenges of Working Together""""List of Contributors""; ""Index""

Sommario/riassunto

Collective action problems are ubiquitous in situations involving human interactions and therefore lie at the heart of economy and political science. In one of the most salient statements on this topic, Elinor Ostrom, co-recipient of the 2009 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic



Sciences, even claims that ""the theory of collective action is the central subject of political science"". The collection of essays presented in this timely volume targets the problem of collective action from both a theoretical and applied perspective. Its multidisciplinary approach makes it a valuable reading for studen