Title: Collective action - Wikipedia
Headings: Collective action
Collective action
Contents
The social identity model
Perceived injustice
Perceived efficacy
Social identity
Model refinement
Public good
Collective action problem
Exploitation of the great by the small
Institutional design
Joint products
Clubs
Federated structure
In philosophy
Spontaneous consensus
Dimensions
Competitive versus cooperative
Local versus global
Equilibrium mechanisms
Methods and techniques
Game theory
Social network analysis
See also
Footnotes
Bibliography
External links

Content: Recent research has sought to integrate SIMCA with intergroup contact theory (see Cakal, Hewstone, Schwär, & Heath) and others have extended SIMCA through bridging morality research with the collective action literature (see van Zomeren, Postmes, & Spears for a review). Public good
The economic theory of collective action is concerned with the provision of public goods (and other collective consumption) through the collaboration of two or more individuals, and the impact of externalities on group behavior. It is more commonly referred to as Public Choice. Mancur Olson 's 1965 book The Logic of Collective Action: Public Goods and the Theory of Groups, is an important early analysis of the problems of public good cost. Besides economics, the theory has found many applications in political science, sociology, communication, anthropology and environmentalism . Collective action problem
Main article: Collective action problem
The term collective action problem describes the situation in which multiple individuals would all benefit from a certain action, but has an associated cost making it implausible that any individual can or will undertake and solve it alone. The ideal solution is then to undertake this as a collective action, the cost of which is shared. Situations like this include the prisoner's dilemma, a collective action problem in which no communication is allowed, the free rider problem, and the tragedy of the commons, also known as the problem with open access.