collective action

Question 1

4 ways to resolve collection action

Answer 1

1. coercion: involves the use of force or threat of force by imposing taxes, jury duty or military service.
2. appealing: mobilizing collective action by engaging people’s emotions and moral responsibilities
3. enticing: providing enticements for individuals to join.
4. political leadership

Question 2

what is free ride

Answer 2

to reap the benefits that collective action provides after others have invested in time, energy and money to mobilize in the first place.

Question 3

what are social movements

Answer 3

organized, sustained and collective efforts that make claims on behalf of a member of a group.

Question 4

what are characteristics of social movement?

Answer 4

1. broad appeal
2. informal organizations
3. concentrate their activities to the sphere of civil society
4. lack institutional and organizational resources relative to parties and interest groups and may struggle for funding.

Question 5

how do social movements form?

Answer 5

1. political structure opportunity: the way a country’s political system shapes , promotes and creates or absorbs the challenges it confronts from organized civiil society
2. the chances of success of a social movement: whether the state allows mobilization or seeks to repress it.

Question 6

what are the characteristics of the interest group?

Answer 6

professional membership
formally organized
focuses on a single issue rather than sets of issues
does not represent candidates for elections
relies on narrow base of supporters

Question 7

what are interest groups?

Answer 7

organized groups of citizens who seek to ensure that the state enacts particular policies

focus their mobilization efforts on obtaining concrete benefits for their supporter.

Question 8

how do interest groups form?

Answer 8

1. pluralism - societal interest organize freely in an unregulated fashion
2. corporatism - state play an active role in organizing groups and mediating between them

Question 9

what are political parties

Answer 9

groups of people who have organized and attained to hold political power

Question 10

what are characteristic of political power?

Answer 10

1. elected to the executive or legislative branches
2. appointed to high level bureaucratic

Question 11

what are party system?

Answer 11

typical pattern of political competition and cooperation between parties within a state.