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The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Politics
Boix, Carles Professor of Politics and Public Affairs, Princeton University
Stokes, Susan C. John S. Saden Professor of Political Science, Yale University
Print publication date: 2009 (this edition) Print ISBN-13: 978-0-19-956602-0
Published to Oxford Handbooks Online: September 2009




8 Collective Action Theory
doi:10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199566020.003.0008

Elinor Ostrom
Abstract: Structural Variables Predicted to Affect the Likelihood of Collective Action – Towards a More General Theory of Human Behavior – Linking Structural Variables to the Core Relationships – Conclusions

Keywords: methodology, politics,

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Full Book Contents
I Introduction
1 Introduction
II Theory And Methodology
2 Multicausality, Context-Conditionality, and Endogeneity
3 Historical Enquiry and Comparative Politics
4 The Case Study: What it is and What it Does
5 Field Research
6 Is the Science of Comparative Politics Possible?
7 From Case Studies to Social Science: A Strategy for Political Research
8 Collective Action Theory
III States and State Formation: Political Consent
9 War, Trade, and State Formation
10 Compliance, Consent, and Legitimacy
11 National Identity
12 Ethnicity and Ethnic Conflict
IV Political Regimes and Transitions
13 Mass Beliefs and Democratic Institutions
14 What Causes Democratization?
15 Democracy and Civic Culture
16 Dictatorship: Analytical Approaches
V Political Instability, Political Conflict
17 Rethinking Revolutions: a Neo-Tocquevillian Perspective
18 Civil Wars
19 Contentious Politics and Social Movements
20 Mechanisms of Globalized Protest Movements
VI Mass Political Mobilization
21 The Emergence of Parties and Party Systems
22 Party Systems
23 Voters and Parties
24 Parties and Voters in Emerging Democracies
25 Political Clientelism
26 Political Activism: New Challenges, New Opportunities
VII Processing Political Demands
27 Aggregating and Representing Political Preferences
28 Electoral Systems
29 Separation of Powers
30 Comparative Judicial Politics
31 Federalism
32 Coalition Theory and Government Formation
VIII Governance in Comparative Perspective
33 Comparative Studies of the Economy and the Vote
34 Context-Conditional Political Budget Cycles
35 The Welfare State in Global Perspective
36 The Poor Performance of Poor Democracies
37 Accountability and the Survival of Governments
38 Economic Transformation and Comparative Politics
Index
 
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