The Political Economy of Collective Action: The Case of the American States

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Approaches to collective activity have suffered from a common deficiency: they have all lacked strong theoretical justification for distinguishing between groups. This article examines the issue by considering political science and economic approaches to collective action among the American states. The author finds that these perspectives yield conflicting expectations about the nature and consequences of collective action. This difference, he argues, is the result of assumptions each of the perspectives makes about the ends of group activity. The conflict may be resolved, he concludes, by considering interest group orientations to markets and economic growth, as well as features of institutional dynamics during the course of political and economic development.

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