POL-UA 500 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Operation N, Universal Suffrage
2 Feb 2017
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Small groups can sanction members more easily than large groups. Larger groups can be held hostage by smaller groups. Us had a greater interest in maintaining nato during cold war. Would have been much harder to maintain its influence without european powers. Us paid a larger per(cid:272)e(cid:374)tage for its size tha(cid:374) europea(cid:374) o(cid:374)es (cid:271)e(cid:272)ause if it did(cid:374)"t (cid:272)o(cid:374)tri(cid:271)ute, the e(cid:374)tire thing can fall apart. Equilibrium-a strategic situation in which no actor has an incentive to change their action conditional on what the other actors are doing. In solving collective action problems, create situations that allow continued collaboration. K is the number of people that need to do the action. N is the total number of people in the group. As k goes up, the (cid:374)u(cid:373)(cid:271)er of people that are worried that they"ll take the (cid:272)ostly a(cid:272)tio(cid:374) Counter-intuitively, as k increases the incentives take action-up to a certain point-100% is not optimal. Exit and voice-two ways to address satisfaction with products.
