Networks and Collective Action

Networks and collective action

This paper proposes a new measure for a group’s ability to lead society to adopt their standard of behavior, which in particular takes account of the time the group takes to convince the whole society to adopt their position. This notion of a group’s power to initiate action is computed as the reciprocal of the resistance against it, which is in turn given by the expected absorption time of a r...

Collective Action Games Embedded in Social Networks

The paper presents a model that synthetically incorporates several paradigms of collective action theories to bring up conditions when different types of collective action games would occur. Different from past literatures, the paper focuses on the analysis when various types of actors are allowed to play games interactively. The designation of game-playing partners follows the three mechanisms...

Collective strength, collective action.

During the past decade, infection prevention programs have been presented with an unending series of challenges and expectations. The challenges, more often than not, have resulted in additional responsibilities, functions, and workload for infection control professionals (ICPs) and healthcare epidemiologists. These additional responsibilities have not been accompanied by proportional increases...

Policy Networks and Institutional Collective Action: A Research Agenda

Collective Action and Bilateral Interaction in Ghanian Entrepreneural Networks