Collective Action and the Civil Rights Movement is a theoretical study of the dynamics of public-spirited collective action as well as a substantial study of th
Community organizers build solidarity and collective power in fractured communities. They help ordinary people turn their private pain into public action, relea
Public choice, an important subdiscipline in the field of political theory, seeks to understand how people and societies make decisions affecting their collecti
Advocacy organizations are viewed as actors motivated primarily by principled beliefs. This volume outlines a new agenda for the study of advocacy organizations
The problem of collective action is that each group member wants other members to make necessary sacrifices while he or she 'free rides', reaping the benefits o