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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"collective action problem"”.
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Escaping an institutional poverty trap : learning behavior as a collective action problem in Brazil's pharmaceutical industry
… --and escaping the trap-- necessarily becomes a collective action problem, where marginalized firms must cooperate to defray the costs of upgrading.
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What Can the Collective Action Problem Tell Us about the Recurrence of Civil War and the Long-term Stability of a Country?
… of why civil war recurs focuses on the collective action problem, centering on the rebel leaders' ability to solve the Rebel's Dilemma. I further argue that once the Rebel's Dilemma has been solved once it is much easier for rebel leaders to solve it again and again. The empirical finds …
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Pursuing the common good : overcoming barriers to collective action through transboundary water negotiation along the Blue Nile River
… transboundary water governance is a type of collective action problem (Olson 1965), in which sovereign actors must cooperate to achieve a collective interest. In this research, I attempt to delineate common procedural and context-specific barriers to collective action within transboundary …
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The ‘Institutional effect’ over EU defence cooperation initiative: The case of preferential patterns of behaviour in the Permanent Structured Cooperation
… agencies and how they contributed to solve collective action problem through a ‘forum effect' on participants, using pro-actively the task of assessing co-operative projects proposals. As a result, PESCO’s institutional effect led to cooperative outcomes between nations that allowed them to …
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An Examination of the Stability of Cooperation in an Ongoing Collective Action: The Case of Nonpoint Source Pollution in Lake Pittsfield
… alter the underlying game configuration of the collective action problem, resulting in cooperative outcomes. An ambient-based penalty, when used in conjunction with a subsidy payment, is shown to produce divergent incentive structures that shift the classification of the collective action away …
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Overcoming the challenges of certification for independent smallholders in the palm oil industry
… is presented through the lens of the collective action problem framework. Two case studies then illustrate the fact that certification can be achieved. Based on these case studies, as well as on interviews with experts and on academic papers, we formulate the necessary conditions to …
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Gentrification in JP/Rox : seeking a collaborative local process for a regional problem
… to local decision-making power and a regional problem such as the housing market. In order to obviate the collective action problem of diffused benefits and concentrated costs created by this local/regional dichotomy while maintaining a commitment to local input and knowledge, interviews with …
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Political economy insights into the defense acquisition process : lessons from the Joint Strike Fighter Program
… that the JSF program is a manifestation of a collective action problem, wherein stakeholders, who should be providing a check on each other, are cooperating, even as the stakeholder who should be participating, remains uninvolved. Consequently, the acquisition policies brought in with the JSF …
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Implications of a Universal Healthcare System in the United States: Why Individual Health Is Now of National Concern
… become a 'common good' which is susceptible to a collective action problem known as 'the tragedy of the commons', and thus also give recommendations for its solution. The solutions that I endorse, although designed to address the free-rider problem recognized David Winkler, shows that Winkler's …
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Taxing Conditions: The Fiscal interest of the State and the Rise of the Modern Corporation in America
… other, and using them capitalists solved their collective action problem of ruinous competition, reorganizing American industry in a great merger wave. The most famous explanation for why the law changed, the efficiency argument, has been refuted by economic sociologists and political scientists …
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Estimating the effects of foreign bribery legislation in the international economy
… of bribes across borders - poses a classic collective action problem in theory. A firm may extract benefits through the payment of bribes to foreign public officials without its own country bearing the associated costs of governmental corruption, and hence while eliminating foreign bribery …
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Three essays in Japanese housing market
… relationship between condominium price and the collective action problem associated with condominium reconstructions in Japan is discussed. Condominium reconstruction involves a difficult collective decision-making process among owners, which prevents older condominiums from being redeveloped …