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The Political Economy of Collective Action and Radical Reform: A Proposed Conceptual Framework

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This paper presents a broad framework for analyzing radical reform in terms of a large set of collective-action problems faced by potential reformers. It merges concepts that often appear separately in the literature, including social preferences, power relationships, policy subsystems, institutional stability, types of institutional change, and types of agents.
creator Ferguson, William D., 1953- (Faculty/Staff)
Title The Political Economy of Collective Action and Radical Reform: A Proposed Conceptual Framework
sponsor Grinnell College. Economics Department.
Index Date 2017
Date Issued 19 January 2017
presented 8 June 2016
Publisher Grinnell College
Type of Resource text
Digital Extent 44 pages
Media Type application/pdf
Note Ferguson, William D. "The Political Economy of Collective Action and Radical Reform: A Proposed Conceptual Framework." SSRN Electronic Journal, 2017, doi:10.2139/ssrn.3405446
Language English
Topic Economics
Topic Social institutions
Geographic Grinnell (Iowa)
Temporal Twenty tens
Keyword collective-action problems
Keyword institutional change
Keyword power relationships
Keyword radical reform
Classification HB
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Identifier (local) grinnell:27809
Access Condition Copyright to this work is held by the author(s), in accordance with United States copyright law (USC 17). Readers of this work have certain rights as defined by the law, including but not limited to fair use (17 USC 107 et seq.).
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