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Structure and Strategy in Collective Action: Communication and Coordination in Social Networks

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  • Michael Suk-Young Chwe

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This paper considers both structural and strategic influences on collective action. Each person in a group wants to participate only if the total number participating is at least her threshold; people use a social network to communicate their thresholds. Results include: cliques form the common knowledge sufficient and in some sense necessary for collective action; dispersion of "insurgents," people strongly predisposed toward collective action, can be good for collective action but too much dispersion can be bad; classic "bandwagon" models overstate the fragility of collective action.

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  • Michael Suk-Young Chwe, 1996. "Structure and Strategy in Collective Action: Communication and Coordination in Social Networks," Working Papers 96-12-092, Santa Fe Institute.
    • Handle: RePEc:wop:safiwp:96-12-092
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    1. Steven N. Durlauf, 1996. "Statistical Mechanics Approaches to Socioeconomic Behavior," NBER Technical Working Papers 0203, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
    2. Michael Suk-Young Chwe, 1998. "Culture, Circles, And Commercials," Rationality and Society, , vol. 10(1), pages 47-75, February.

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