The Logic of Private and Collective Action
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6230048 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Wendy L Hansen (0000-0002-5964-2564), Neil J Mitchell (0000-0003-0744-984X), Jeffrey Drope (0000-0003-0147-9722, University of Miami), Jeffrey M Drope |
| Year | 2005 |
| Volume | 49 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 150-167 |
| Publication date | 2005-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Journal of Political Science (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0092-5853 • E-ISSN: 1540-5907 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.0092-5853.2005.00116.x |
| OpenAlex | W2156365327 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 74 |
| References cited | 36 |
Since Mancur Olson's Logic of Collective Action (1965), it is impossible for political scientists to conceive of political participation without reference to his powerful argument linking numbers of participants, public goods, and participatory outcomes. What is puzzling is the poor empirical support for this argument in the domain where it should work best, namely explaining business political activity. Olson thought his arguments principally applicable to economic groups, and for the empirical development of his arguments Olson drew heavily on business interests, the most active segment of the interest group community. We explore these arguments with business political activities data by examining the statistical performance of various measures of market structure in determining business political activity, and find little empirical support. We do offer an alternative basis for business behavior lodged in both private and collective goods that preserves business rationality and also helps explain not only the amount of business political participation but the modes of business participation
Action (physics · Argument (complex analysis · Citizen journalism · Collective action · Economics · Empirical research · Epistemology · Law and economics · Microeconomics · Political science · Politics · Positive economics · Public good · Rationality · Elite Sociology and Global Capitalism · Labor Movements and Unions · Law · Political Influence and Corporate Strategies
Partisan Models and the Search for Party Effects in the US Senate
Interest Group Theory
The Party Faithful
How Parties Nominate Presidents
The Comparative Advantage of State Interest Organization Research
Theories of Parties
The Road Less Taken
Party Coalitions in the US Congress
Social and Economic Justice Movements and Organizations
Who Sings in the Heavenly Chorus?
Party Nominating Procedures and Recruitment—State and Local Level
Activists, Influence, and Representation in American Elections
Methodological Issues in the Study of Political Parties
Political Parties and Consultants
State Parties Research
The Mobilization and Influence of Business Interests
What a Difference Twenty-Five Years Makes
Interest Groups and Agendas
Interest Groups in American Elections
The State of Research on Political Parties and Interest Groups
The Evolution of National Party Organizations
Lobbying and Influence
Urban Interest Groups
The Evolution and Alteration of American Party Coalitions
The Pure Partisan Institution
Linking Political Parties and Interest Groups
The President, Party Politics, and Constitutional Development
Winning Isn't Everything
Methodological Perspectives on Interest Groups
American Political Parties
The Oxford handbook of American political parties and interest groups
The Industrial Organization of Regulatory Capture
The Participation of npos in the Economic Development of Rural Communities in China
Assessing business advantage in Washington lobbying
Dynamic state interest group systems
The determinants of direct corporate lobbying in the EU
Beyond lobbying
Governing the invisible commons
Behavioural and attitudinal support to zero-Covid policies among adolescents in a Chinese coastal area
Interindustry Goods Market Networks and Industry Lobbying for Trade Policy
The firm logic of parallel lobbying
New trade, new politics
Trading with the enemy
Politically Connected Firms
Party Government and Variation in Corporate Influence on Agency Decision Making
The impact of interest group diversity on legal implementation in the European Union
Interest organizations across economic sectors
Interest groups in the European Union and their hiring of political consultancies
Firms, Governments, and WTO Adjudication
The Effects of Citizens United on Corporate Spending in the 2012 Presidential Election
Corporate Influence and the Regulatory Mandate
Ex Post Lobbying
Business as a Collaborative Partner
Looking for ‘Voice’ in Business and Citizen Groups
The Logic of Transnational Action
Political alignment between firms and employees in the United States
Allocating Lobbying Resources between Collective and Private Rents
The Impact of Citizens United on Large Corporations and Their Employees
The Political Economy of Nontariff Trade Barriers in Emerging Economies
New Evidence for the Theory of Groups
Electric utilities and American climate policy
Why firms lobby more alone than collectively
Free Riding and Protection for Sale1
Public opinion and interest groups’ concerns for organizational survival
Financial industry mobilisation and securities markets regulation inEurope
Mobilization and Strategies
The Analytical Foundations of Collective Action Theory
Studying Organizational Advocacy and Influence
Supply Chain Linkages and the Extended Carbon Coalition
Political Quid Pro Quo Agreements
Interest Group and Political Party Influence on Growth in State Spending and Debt
How Internal Constraints Shape Interest Group Activities
How the Workplace Affects Employee Political Contributions
The Political Mobilization of Firms and Industries
Pursuing Strategic Advantage Through Political Means
The Process of Government and the Governmental Process
The Logic of Collective Action
Limited-dependent and qualitative variables in econometrics
Market structure and campaign contributions
On the political participation of the firm in the electoral process
Market structure and campaign contributions
The Determinants of Domestic and Foreign Corporate Political Activity
Why Do Some Firms Give? Why Do Some Give a Lot
The Pluralism of Pluralism
Attitudes, Opportunities and Incentives
Foreign‐owned Firms' Campaign Contributions in the United States
Theory and Evidence for Counteractive Lobbying
Counteractive Lobbying
Business Involvement in Campaign Finance
Money, Business, and the State
The Political Partisanship of American Business
The Determinants of Industry Political Activity, 1978-1986
Disaggregating and Explaining Corporate Political Activity
Economic concentration and corporate political behavior
| Unique citing works | 74 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 3,89 |
| Citation span | 2007 - 2026 (20) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 74 |