Impediments to Collective Action in a Small Community
In: Politics & society, Band 22, Heft 3, S. 421-434
ISSN: 0032-3292
A critique of Michael Taylor's & Sara Singleton's "The Communal Resource: Transaction Costs and the Solution of Collective Action Problems" (see SA 41:5/9305612) contends that the study's results are determined by the consideration of groups of people with homogeneous interests only. Such an approach is judged not only unrealistic, but also theoretically flawed. Drawing on the experience of a small rural movement in Nova Scotia, the shortcomings of Taylor's & Singleton's analysis are highlighted, & the relevance of the issues for environmental movements is discussed. R. Jaramillo