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Mancur Olson’s The Logic Of Collective Action
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In 1965 an intellectual bomb was dropped on the field of interest groups, in the form of . In this seminal work Olson details the dynamics of group formation. The central theory is that men and women are rational, correspondingly they maximize benefits and minimize costs; because of this rationa ....
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....rmediate groups do not face the collective action problem. In order to properly explore the merits and failures of the by-product theory, a broad interpretation must be used. The by-product theory can be defined as, groups engage in lobbying activities as a by-product of their primary activities. An interest group is not established primarily to secure a collective good, but rather as a subsidiary activity that the parent organization sees as a viable means for improvement. This interpretati.... |
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