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Essays in collective action.

Siegel, David A.

Essays in collective action.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Essays in collective action.
Author:	Siegel, David A.
Description:	189 p.
Notes:	Adviser: Jonathan Bendor.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 67-05, Section: A, page: 1902.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International67-05A.
Subject:	Sociology, Theory and Methods.
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3219381
ISBN:	9780542708152

Essays in collective action.
Siegel, David A.

Essays in collective action. - 189 p.

Adviser: Jonathan Bendor.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Stanford University, 2006.

The last two chapters focus more narrowly on mass voting behavior, and work from the assumption that each individual's decision-making is governed by retrospection: a comparison of an observed outcome to some internal standard. In the third chapter, we formalize a notion of retrospective voting, and derive voting outcomes both on the individual and on the group level, showing that individuals may develop partisan tendencies, despite lacking overt political ideologies, even when they misperceive outcomes. In the fourth chapter, we add myopically rational parties to the population of retrospective voters, and show how an endogenous incumbency advantage brought about by voter retrospection can lead a party to long stretches in office during which both parties locate away from both median and mean.

ISBN: 9780542708152Subjects--Topical Terms:

212588
Sociology, Theory and Methods.

Essays in collective action.
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520 # $a This dissertation undertakes a theoretical study in the provision of collective action when the information structure is messy, costs and benefits for participation are unclear or subjective, and individuals are heterogeneous in belief and action. The first and second chapters after the introduction take a general look at collective behavior, including anything from protests, rebellion, or voting to fads or innovation adoption. The focus of these chapters is on fundamentally interdependent behavior, in which the more people who participate in some activity, the more likely non-participants are to join in as well, all else being equal. In the first chapter I explore the effects of both detailed social networks and an idealized mass media on participation in a collective action, utilizing a simulation to probe a model containing heterogeneous agents. I find that network connectivity and media involvement can either increase or decrease participation, depending on the underlying makeup of the population. In the second chapter I add the possibility of violent and non-violent repression to this model, illustrate the ways in which network structure and elite interests interact with the technologies of repression to yield participatory outcomes, and apply the model to Shi'ite voting in the January 2005 Iraqi legislative elections.
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