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Linares Martínez Francisco - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Elección racional y normas sociales: una vuelta más de tuerca
Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, 2018Co-Authors: Linares Martínez FranciscoAbstract:This paper explores the potential interest in using actual collective action research, within the rational choice paradigm, in the intentional explanation of social norms. After demonstrating the premises of rational choice theory and Olson's analysis of collective action, the article uses the concept of prodüction function to explore the relationships between collective action, microsocial structure, and social norms (conceived as Selective Incentive systems). The paper ends with a brief reflection conceming the useñilness of refining such a tool and combining different models of decisionmaking in order to explore the difficult meta-theoretical questions of linking structure and action.En el presente artículo se explora el posible interés que pueda tener el uso de las recientes investigaciones en acción colectiva, dentro del paradigma de la elección racional, en la explicación intencional de las normas sociales. Tras exponer sintéticamente las premisas de la teoría de la elección racional y el análisis olsoniano de la acción colectiva, se exploran las relaciones entre acción colectiva, micro-estructura social y normas sociales (concebidas como sistemas de incentivos selectivos) empleando el concepto de función de producción. El artículo finaliza con una breve reflexión sobre la conveniencia de refinar dicha herramienta y de combinar distintos modelos de decisión con el fin de explorar la difícil cuestión metateórica del vínculo entre estructura y acción
Franz Traxler - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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the long term development of organised business and its implications for corporatism a cross national comparison of membership activities and governing capacities of business interest associations 1980 2003
European Journal of Political Research, 2010Co-Authors: Franz TraxlerAbstract:Internationalisation of markets and the demise of Keynesianism have made business more independent of associational action. Membership density and ‘corporatist’ involvement in wage bargaining and public policy have declined only modestly, while the capacity to govern members has dwindled significantly. This development is driven by the way in which large firms and the state relate to business associations. Large firms still have a vital interest not only in associational action, but also in integrating their smaller counterparts. Stated-based support for multi-employer bargaining, as established in most countries, buttresses business associations. By equipping the associations with an encompassing grip on the labour market, this support prompts governments to involve them in public policy. Since encompassing labour market regulation enables the associations to impose negative externalities on unaffiliated businesses, it provides them with a strong Selective Incentive for membership. The significant decline of the associations' governing capacity emanates from pressures of their large members to reduce costs of association. The implications of this development for interest intermediation are twofold. Given the strong decay of union power, the resilience of corporatism strongly hinges on the continued strength of organised business and on its state-sponsored engagement in bargaining. At the same time, leeway for compromising has been restrained by the significant decline in the governing capacity of organised business. This decline echoes an ever-growing predominance of large firms in business associations, while economic internationalisation exacerbates interest conflicts between larger and smaller firms. To the extent that this configuration of interest and power weakens the ability of business associations to integrate the mass of small firms, it develops into the new Achilles heel of corporatism.
Francisco Linares Martínez - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Elección racional y normas sociales: una vuelta más de tuerca
Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, 2018Co-Authors: Francisco Linares MartínezAbstract:This paper explores the potential interest in using actual collective action research, within the rational choice paradigm, in the intentional explanation of social norms. After demonstrating the premises of rational choice theory and Olson's analysis of collective action, the article uses the concept of prodüction function to explore the relationships between collective action, microsocial structure, and social norms (conceived as Selective Incentive systems). The paper ends with a brief reflection conceming the useñilness of refining such a tool and combining different models of decisionmaking in order to explore the difficult meta-theoretical questions of linking structure and action
Gwyneth Mcclendon - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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social esteem and participation in contentious politics a field experiment at an lgbt pride rally
American Journal of Political Science, 2014Co-Authors: Gwyneth McclendonAbstract:What motivates individuals to participate in contentious, political forms of collective action? In this article, I consider the possibility that the promise of social esteem from an ingroup can act as a powerful Selective Incentive for individuals to participate in contentious politics. I conducted a field experiment—the first to my knowledge to take place in the context of a political march, rally, or social-identity event—to isolate this esteem mechanism from others. Using measures of intent to attend, actual attendance, and reported attendance at a gay and lesbian pride event in New Jersey, I find evidence that the promise of social esteem boosts all three measures of participation. The article offers new theoretical and practical implications for the study of participation in nonvoting forms of collective action.
Jonathan Klick - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Salvation as a Selective Incentive
2005Co-Authors: Jonathan KlickAbstract:As club goods, religions face the problem of free riding. Smaller religious clubs, such as cults or sects, can often surmount this problem through communal pressures or by requiring their members to provide easily monitored signals. Generally, however, such tactics will be unavailable or too costly for large denominations, and, as such, these denominations must look for other techniques to avoid free riding. This paper argues that the Roman Catholic doctrine of justification by faith and works serves as an Olsonian Selective Incentive, and presents empirical evidence in support of this claim. Specifically, I show that Catholics contribute significantly more to their churches as they approach death than do members of Protestant denominations. More generally, this paper suggests that church doctrines influence behavioral Incentives and religious leaders may be able to capitalize on these behavioral effects for the benefit of their church.
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Salvation as a Selective Incentive: An Olsonian Analysis of the Faith vs. Works Cleavage
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2002Co-Authors: Jonathan KlickAbstract:As club goods, religions face the problem of free riding. Smaller religious clubs, such as cults or sects, can often surmount this problem through communal pressures or by requiring their members to provide easily monitored signals. Generally, however, such tactics will be unavailable or too costly for large denominations, and, as such, these denominations must look for other techniques to avoid free riding. This paper argues that the Roman Catholic doctrine of justification by faith and works serves as an Olsonian Selective Incentive, and presents empirical evidence in support of this claim. It also examines the historical and theological development of the doctrine in an attempt to discern if the faith plus works model of salvation evolved in the Roman Catholic Church for economic, as opposed to theological, reasons.