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Mancur Lloyd Olson Jr. (/ˈmænsər/;
January 22, 1932 –
February 19, 1998) was an
American economist and
political scientist who
taught at the University...
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genuine democracy during or
after their term.[need
quotation to verify]
Mancur Olson characterized dictators as "not like the wolf that
preys on the elk...
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Collective Action:
Public Goods and the
Theory of
Groups is a book by
Mancur Olson Jr.
published in 1965. It
develops a
theory of
political science and...
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origin of the state,
developed by
American scholars Martin C.
McGuire and
Mancur Olson. In this theory, the
State is
equated with a "stationary bandit" who...
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important works are
Anthony Downs's An
Economic Theory of
Democracy (1957) and
Mancur Olson's The
Logic of
Collective Action (1965),
which was
fundamental in...
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models such as the
Lange model. Some economists, such as
Joseph Stiglitz,
Mancur Olson, and
others not
specifically advancing anti-socialists
positions have...
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simultaneously benefiting on the
public goods provided by the alliance.
According to
Mancur Olson and
Richard Zeckhauser's
classic study of alliances,
small states...
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people do contribute, they are rewarded, if they don't they are punished.
Mancur Olson gave rise to the
concept in its
first instance (c.f. The
Logic of...
- -and-de-centralization-of-the-authority/ [Accessed 4 Nov. 2015]. Olson,
Mancur (1993-01-01). "Dictatorship, Democracy, and Development". The
American Political...
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collective action theory was
first published by
Mancur Olson in 1965.
Olson argues that any
group of
individuals attempting to
provide a
public good...
