Collective Action

Collective action in Global Commerce Policy

In this regard, collective action is: a term used in APEC to describe activities aimed at liberalizing or expanding trade that can, by definition, only be carried out jointly. These include mutual recognition of qualifications and standards, customs cooperation, etc. See also concerted liberalization action.[1]

Collective actionin the wold Encyclopedia

For an introductory overview on international trade policy, see this entry.

Resources

Notes and References

1. Dictionary of Trade Policy, “Collective action” entry (OAS)

See Also

Collective Action

See Also

• Governance
• Collaborative Governance
• Community Organizing
• Coordination
• Ethnic Groups
• Generalized Exchange
• Groupthink
• Industrialization
• Interdependence
• Interest
  Group
• Positive Political Theory
• Prisoner ™s Dilemma

Further Reading

• Chong, D. (1991). Collective action and the civil rights
  movement. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
  Hardin, R. (1982). Collective action. Baltimore: Johns
  Hopkins University Press.
  Hume, D. (1978). Enquiries concerning human
  understanding and concerning the principles of morals,
  (3rd ed.). Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.
  Marwell, G., & Oliver, P. (1993). The critical mass in
  collective action: A micro-social theory. Cambridge, UK:
  Cambridge University Press.
  Olson, M., Jr. (1971). The logic of collective action: Public
  goods and the theory of groups. Cambridge, MA: Harvard
  University Press.
  Sandler, T. (1992). Collective action: Theory and
  applications. Hemel Hempstead, UK: Harvester-
  Wheatsheaf.
  Taylor, M. (Ed.). (1988). Rationality and revolution.
  Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
  Verba, S., Schlozman, K. L., & Brad, H. (1995). Voice and
  equality: Civic voluntarism in American politics.
  Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
• Collective Action in the Encyclopedia of Governance, Mark Bevir – University of California, Berkeley, USA, 2007, SAGE Publications