entities and it is somewhat difficult to speak of preferences of the collective or, in this case, the state. The state cannot have preferences, and within it different and even conflicting preferences may be present. However, at least in economics and political science, we are used to working with collective actorsthe firm, the party, the church, and many others in our theories. It is reasonabl...

We develop a theory of legislative representation in open and flexible list proportional rule electoral systems (OFPR). Our framework highlights how representatives’ desire to cultivate a personal vote may undermine or strengthen the pursuit of collective party goals. We show that whether collective and individual goals are in conflict depends on the flexibility of the list—the extent to which ...

This article uses social-movement theory to analyze how neighborhood organizations portray activism as grounded in a particular place and scale. I apply the concept of collective-action frames to a case study of four organizations in a single neighborhood inSt. Paul,Minnesota.Using organizational documents such as annual reports, comprehensive plans, and flyers, I present a discourse analysis o...

Groups of collaborative agents within organizations need to achieve goals creating group awareness. This is necessary for groups to act as single entities. The notion of collective belief has been used extensively in formal models for collaborative activity to deal with group awareness. However, collective belief alone is neither sufficient nor effortless for group members to act collaborativel...

From the early literature on the role of firm managers (Alchian and Demsetz 1972) to the industrial organisation on contracts and mechanism design (Laffont and Martimort 2009), economists have given a lot of attention to find solutions to the imperfect alignment between individuals’ incentives and an organisation’s collective goals (Prendergast 1999). In that literature a key role of managers i...

Title of dissertation: SOCIAL AND ECOLOGICAL FACTORS INFLUENCING COLLECTIVE BEHAVIOR IN GIANT DANIO Amanda Megan Chicoli, Doctor of Philosophy, 2016 Dissertation directed by: Professor Derek Paley Neuroscience and Cognitive Science Program A fundamental problem in biology is understanding how and why things group together. Collective behavior is observed on all organismic levels — from cells an...

In this paper we identify two missing dimensions of the Human Capabilities Approach (HCA)—the collective and productive—and in doing so advance a ‘productionist’ perspective on development, centred around idea ‘collective productive capabilities’. Bringing production back to core development agenda calls for an integration HCA those contributions which have focused their attention social, econo...

collective behavior is regarded as one of the main issues in contemporary political sociology, a social phenomenon that has long challenged political systems. the purpose of this paper is to study the factors affecting the tendency of the students of shiraz toward collective behavior. to explain collective behavior, we have used neil smelser’s theoretical framework and from the structural-funct...

We study the construction of the collective-coordinate manifold in the baryon number two sector of the Skyrme model. To that end we use techniques of adiabatic large amplitude collective motion, which treat potential and kinetic energy on an equal footing. In this paper the starting point is the Ansatz proposed by Atiyah and Manton (Phys. Lett. 438B, 222 (1989)), which allows a study of the dyn...