POL-UA 500 Lecture 3: POL-UA 500, Lecture 3 Notes
5 Dec 2016
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Mancur olson said that the largest individual in a group feels the most pressure to take the desired group action. Smaller members can pressure the larger powers into contributing proportionally more than they would otherwise be responsible for. Collective action problems can therefore sometimes be solved by having actors of unequal size. Example: the role of the united states in the nato alliance. A strategic interaction involving multiple actors, where no actor has incentive to change their action, conditional on what the others are doing. Example: equilibrium as part of a collective action problem i. ii. iii. i. ii. i. ii. iii. We often attempt to solve collective action problems by finding an equilibrium where the desired group goal is obtained. Example: if everyone writes a 2-page paper tonight, he will cancel the 7-page term paper for everyone. i) ii) iii) Each student has two options: write the 2-page paper, or don"t.
