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Showing 1 to 20 of 380 for “"Collective action"”.
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Collective Action of the American State, Collective Action of the American Masses
… parts: Whose Side Are You On? : Mob Violence and Collective Action through the Eyes of Revolutionary America Collective Action of the American State, Collective Action of the American Masses in the 21st Century Applications of New Knowledge: Student-Centered Resources Focusing on Collective Action …
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Three essays on collective action
… across contexts--from the motivations that drive collective action to the institutional arrangements that facilitate cooperation. This three-essay dissertation examines how such collective resolve can be harnessed to meet the contemporary crises of ecological degradation and social fragmentation. …
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Collective action and changes in wage labor
… post-war era. Moreover, this study introduced collective action as an important determinant for explaining changes in the labor process and in the distribution of wage labor. The findings indicate that workers collective action enhances our understanding of labor process development and changes …
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Incomplete information games of conflict and collective action
… of three essays that investigate strategic interactions between individuals engaging in risky collective action in uncertain environments. The first essay analyzes a broad class of incomplete information coordination games with a wide range of applications in economics and politics. The second …
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Norm Conformity and Social Identity In Collective Action Groups
… for cultivating successful solutions to collective action problems. In this dissertation I argue that one explanation for how groups can increase social identification is through norms, or expectations for group-related behavior. Social identity is generated among norm conformers through …
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Analysing collective action: intersections of power, government and resistance
… them together within the contested terrain of collective action. The Covering Document elucidates how, across the ten outputs, collective action is theorised: as the site of and target for complex and dynamic power relationships; as imbricated with various governmental projects through which …
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The role of scientific evidence in collective action decision-making
… this complexity. One such governing system is collective action, where multiple stakeholders come together to solve large-scale problems for the benefit of all involved. Collective action is especially prevalent in conservation due to the increased degradation of natural resources, which are …
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Collective Action in Transitioning States: A Study of Social Enterprise
… frame of Fligstein and McAdam’s (2011) Strategic Action Fields, a model of meso-level collective action, this thesis examines the evolving relationships of the social enterprises (‘Challengers’ who want to change the status quo), social enterprise support networks (‘Governance units’ who uphold …
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DEMOCRACY AND JUSTICE IN COLLECTIVE ACTION INITIATIVES IN THE ENERGY FIELD
… Energy communities represent a form of collective management based on the principle of “one people, one voice”, where citizens are the direct owners of energy, contrasting thus with the previous energetic model based on fossil-fuel energy and big companies and states. Furthermore, energy …
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Collective action and the development of technical standards in U.S. industry
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 1993.
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Collective action for the rights of sex offenders: evaluating social movement organizations
<p>Sex offender registration and community notification (SORN) policies have been instituted across the country to manage individuals in the community who have been convicted of a sex offense. A social movement, made up of registrants and their family members, has sprung up across the country to …
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The politics of pot : marijuana use and the potential for collective action.
… skepticism has manifested into political action by American state governments that have begun legalizing marijuana use for medicinal and recreational purposes. Using nationally representative data from the Baylor Religion Survey, I find marijuana users are more likely to publicly protest …
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Affecting the gun debate: Art and performance as arguments for collective action
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2025-02-04 without embargo terms
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Transaction Cost Economics of Rice Irrigation Systems in Tanzania: Implications for Collective Action
… the organisational and coordination aspects in a collective action (CA) on irrigation systems of Tanzania have not been given sufficient attention. Consequently, smallholder rice irrigation systems, which are either traditional improved or modern schemes, perform poorly in operations and …
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Collective action, incentives and social welfare : an analysis of South African policy forums
… at the time by a particular type of interaction between government, labour and business, neo-corporatist theory does not offer a robust (deductive) argument of why certain policy making institutions led to particular desirable social outcomes. In other words, the understanding of the …
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Finding Your Pulse: Insidious Trauma, Psychological Distress, and Collective Action Among Sexual Minority Latinx
… Latinx people. Additionally, group-specific collective action (i.e., ethnic/racial collective action, sexual minority collective action, immigration collective action) were examined as potential moderators in these respective links. Combined collective action (mean level of collective action …
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