Heroic Collective Action: A People's Blessing?

Collective strength, collective action.

During the past decade, infection prevention programs have been presented with an unending series of challenges and expectations. The challenges, more often than not, have resulted in additional responsibilities, functions, and workload for infection control professionals (ICPs) and healthcare epidemiologists. These additional responsibilities have not been accompanied by proportional increases...

The Right of Indigenous Peoples to Collective Self - determination

Leadership in Collective Action

We merge the current approach to collective action failure based on free-riding (Olson, 1965) with the previous approach focusing on the distortions created by the need of leaders (Michels, 1911 and Max Weber, 1918). Group goals and incentives are set by leaders in view to maximize the probability of success —rather than the group expected payoff. In spite of not being group optimal, success ma...

Spontaneous Collective Action∗

We propose a dynamic, probabilistic model of collective action. While agents’ incentives are approximately captured by the normal form suggested in Palfrey and Rosenthal (1984), agents’ behavior is only boundedly rational. The model deÞnes a discrete time, discrete state Markov process. We identify the process’ unique limiting distribution and show that in the long-run even in large populations...

Collective Action and Agroindustries

Collective Action and Agroindustries Two fundamental global economic tendencies have caused a shift in interest towards promoting rural agroenterprises and agroindustrialization to combat rural poverty. Increasing income levels and demographic changes, i.e. increased female labor force participation, has fueled demand for high-value and processed products. Structural adjustment and liberalizaCo...