In the 50 years since its publication, Mancur Olson's Logic of Collective Action has had an
enormous impact on the academic literature in both economics and political science. In this …

This paper presents a retrospective view of Mancur Olson's The Logic of Collective Action.
The paper's primary purpose is to investigate the validity of Olson's propositions concerning …

For decades, scholars have been trying to determine whether small or large groups are
more likely to cooperate for collective action and successfully manage common-pool …

Understanding whether the size of the interacting group has an effect on cooperative
behavior has been a major topic of debate since the seminal works on cooperation in the …

Monitoring with implicated punishment is common in human societies to avert freeriding on
common goods. But is it effective in promoting public cooperation? We show that the …

Agricultural cooperatives are seen as an efficient way for smallholder farmers to create
bargaining power in order to achieve poverty reduction and food security. However, the …

In a world in which many pressing global issues require large scale cooperation,
understanding the group size effect on cooperative behavior is a topic of central importance …

A major contribution of the public-choice school is the recognition by Gordon Tullock that
contestable rents give rise to social losses because of unproductive resource use …

Most human societies are characterized by the presence of different identity groups which
cooperate but also compete for resources and power. To deepen our understanding of the …

Competition between groups often involves prizes that have both a public and a private
component. The exact nature of the prize not only affects the strategic choice of the sharing …