POL SCI 21A Lecture 2: new
14 Nov 2017
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Coordination dilemma, even when parties want the same outcome, it is still difficult to coordination, the larger the group is, the more difficult it will be to coordinate, it is the result of collection action problem. Including free rider problem, the tragedy of common goods, prisoner dilemma, common pool resource dilemma: decision rules and delegation can help solve this dilemma, example: coordination game. When two drive, if they drive on the same side of the road. Dilemmas: the dilemmas showed up from a conflict over limited resource between individual interests and common goods, example: fishing and fresh water. Long term fishing is much healthier than overly harvested in one year. Because everyone can use it and no one have right prevent others from using it. Therefore, people tend to use more and cause the overuse of the resource: public goods, public good is all or nothing proposition.
