POL203Y5 Study Guide - Free Rider Problem, Congress, Functional Response
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Collective action is the efforts of a group to reach and implement an agreement. Collective action compares individual preferences and finds a course of action that sufficient number of participants agree if preferable to proposed alternatives or remaining in the status quo. Two fundamental barriers of to collective action are coordination problems and pirsoners dilemma. Coordination is when members of a group must decide invidiaully what they want, what they will contribute to the collective enterprise and how to coordinate their effort with others. Coordination problems increase with the size of a group, large groups trying to reach shared goals run into difficulty. For example; members of the house of rep and senate configure procedures to enable congresss to decide policy for the hudres of issues presented each session. To achieve the same objective, the house of 435 members and 100 senators proceeddifferently and have conflicting opinions.
