POLSCI 111 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Collective Action, Auto Mechanic, Decision Rule

• School: U of M
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POLSCI 111
• Professor: Arthur Lupia

Document Summary

Coordinating: coordination in politics is extremely important, democrats poorly coordinated with the 2016 presidential campaign. Collective action problems: public goods, free riding. His words: you are in a decision-making body and you have some rule for making the decision (ex. One solution to cycling: granting agenda control. Think of this as a leader with an ability to permit or disallow alternative proposals. Prisoners" dilemma: everyone always has an individual incentive, two-problem version of collective action problem, examples. Bureaucrats and congress: solutions to p-a (delegation problems) Themes of the course: people in society face collective dilemmas and delation problems, collective dilemmas and delegation problems are often solved by political, social, and economic institutions, how those institutions work have distributive and redistributive consequences. Institutions: codified constraints on behavior, rules and procedures used to make collective decisions or carry out the tasks of government, relatively more permanent than policies.