{"id":1363,"date":"2015-07-02T13:21:19","date_gmt":"2015-07-02T18:21:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/users.ssc.wisc.edu\/~oliver\/wp\/?page_id=1363"},"modified":"2015-07-06T11:28:11","modified_gmt":"2015-07-06T16:28:11","slug":"soc-626-interests-and-the-problem-of-collective-action","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/users.ssc.wisc.edu\/~peoliver\/teaching\/soc-626\/soc-626-readings-assignments-and-lectures-test\/soc-626-interests-and-the-problem-of-collective-action\/","title":{"rendered":"Soc 626 Interests and the Problem of Collective Action"},"content":{"rendered":"<ol>\n<li>* Mancur Olson, <a href=\"http:\/\/ssc.wisc.edu\/~oliver\/SOC924\/Articles\/olsonlogic.pdf\">The Logic of Collective Action,<\/a> (1965) Introduction and Chapter 1. Still very widely cited as true, despite extensive critical literature since its publication. You need to know what he said, as well as know why his argument is misleading (which we will discuss in class).<\/li>\n<li>Oliver\u2019s\u00a0lecture summary\u00a0of production function issues and other critiques, &#8220;Collective Action&#8221; lecture notes: <a href=\"http:\/\/users.ssc.wisc.edu\/~oliver\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/CollAct-TheoryNew.pdf\">pdf file + graphics<\/a>,\u00a0includes everything in the other two options. <a href=\"http:\/\/users.ssc.wisc.edu\/~oliver\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/CollAct-TheoryNew.rtf\">RTF text only<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/users.ssc.wisc.edu\/~oliver\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Production-Function-Graphics.pdf\">PDF file graphics only<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/users.ssc.wisc.edu\/~oliver\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Oliver_Olson-Group-Size-Proof.pdf\">Oliver&#8217;s Proof <\/a>that Olson&#8217;s equations are independent of group size\u00a0(this is in case you want to know; not required reading)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/users.ssc.wisc.edu\/~oliver\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Words-and-Theories.doc\">Words and Theories<\/a>\u00a0&#8211; Short notes on the history of &#8220;collective behavior,&#8221; &#8220;collective action,&#8221; &#8220;collective event&#8221; and remarks on the falsity of the &#8220;rational vs. irrational&#8221; dichotomy<\/li>\n<li>Not required: Link to a long list of collective action theory &amp; research articles (<a title=\"Soc 924 \u2013 Readings and Links\" href=\"http:\/\/users.ssc.wisc.edu\/~oliver\/wp\/?page_id=158\">graduate seminar page<\/a>). Useful if you want to do further reading in this topic.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>* Mancur Olson, The Logic of Collective Action, (1965) Introduction and Chapter 1. Still very widely cited as true, despite extensive critical literature since its publication. You need to know what he said, as well &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":1212,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/users.ssc.wisc.edu\/~peoliver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1363"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/users.ssc.wisc.edu\/~peoliver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/users.ssc.wisc.edu\/~peoliver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/users.ssc.wisc.edu\/~peoliver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/users.ssc.wisc.edu\/~peoliver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1363"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/users.ssc.wisc.edu\/~peoliver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1363\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1425,"href":"https:\/\/users.ssc.wisc.edu\/~peoliver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1363\/revisions\/1425"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/users.ssc.wisc.edu\/~peoliver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/users.ssc.wisc.edu\/~peoliver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}