Eliminating Group Agency

Abstract Aggregating individuals’ consistent attitudes might produce inconsistent collective attitudes. Some groups therefore need the capacity to form that are irreducible those of their members. Such groups, group-agent realists argue, agents in control own attitude formation. In this paper, however, I show how realism overlooks important fact consist strategically interacting agents. Only by eliminating group agency from our social explanations can we see individuals vote gain and cannot make sense if treat as