Collective Action Problem: A Prisoner's Dilemma

Collective action is defined as actions taken by like-minded individuals in an effort to achieve the same goal. Though this seems to be an asset to the United States government, the country cannot seem to master the idea of working together toward a common goal due to several problems. The textbook presented many of these problems that may prevent the United States from implementing collective action including, coordination, the prisoner’s dilemma, and logrolling. Coordination is the act of working

Collective action is defined as actions taken by like-minded individuals in an effort to achieve the same goal. Though this seems to be an asset to the United States government, we cannot seem to master the idea of working together toward a common goal due to many problems in our way. The textbook presented many of these problems that may prevent the United States from implementing collective action, including coordination, the prisoner’s dilemma, and logrolling. Coordination is the act of working

Since 1960, the exportation of REM (Rare Earth Minerals) has become the oil of the 21st century: fully accompanied with problems of supply and trade. China, being the most abundant contributor of REM (93%-97%), has pushed its decision to the brim by restricting the supply of this most wanted good on industrious nations. In so, how would these countries react towards each other under this crisis? Actors may fail to coöperate eve when their interests are entirely identical. Therefore, by analyzing

cooperate without knowing the degree of benefit they are going to gain by cooperating. This is what we familiarly heard the game theory of prisoner’s dilemma. Understanding the key concepts of prisoner’s dilemma may guide us towards more effective collective-actions dealing with environmental issues especially in any environmental regime. However, collective-actions itself profoundly to have challenges; 1) tragedy of the common deals with common pool resources that is rival and non-excludable, the main

Actors make choices in order to further their political interests, yet they cannot always get what they want. One actor´s political outcome depends on the choices of other actors. When actors´ choices combine to produce political outcomes it is product of interactions. The interests of relevant actors combine to produce interactions. Interactions are divided into two classes: Bargaining and Cooperation. Bargaining is an interaction where actors choose from outcomes in which none can be better off

The National Missile Defense System is the First Step to Another Cold War and the United States Should Not Do It As we begin the twenty-first century, an increasing number of states around the world are acquiring nuclear capabilities. The sense of insecurity by individual governments is driving many states into developing and testing ballistic missiles. In the mean time, the United States finds itself in a position to develop new technology that will protect themselves against these potential

I, Moral Problems, Greene relates Hardin’s “Tragedy of the Commons” to compare individualistic and collectivistic interests. In the “Tragedy of the Commons”, a single group of herders shares a hypothetical common pasture. Hardin posits that, were everyone to act for his or her individual self-interests, the pasture would be eroded and nothing would be left (19). Collective interests should triumph over individual interests whenever possible (24). Morality evolved to solve this problem of cooperation

application of game theory and the Nash Equilibrium interact in the courtroom. Therefore, the outcome of this case will need to be decided at the Supreme Court level. It will serve as precedent for the future and can help determine the fate of future problems. Game theory allows for the success of the American judicial system because it forms the core argument in all legal

one all powerful sovereign to reign over them (332). As Hobbes states it, the only option the subjects have is to accept it or be destroyed (332). The problems with his theory in in action would be clear. If men are naturally self interested, would they ever truly be able to give up all of their liberties for a sense of security? The prisoner’s dilemma arises where the theory could work if all acted on behalf of society, but if one decides to pursue self interest, then the society’s outcome worsens

consulting in general, and public policy formation in particular. Several features of the recent work of Jacques Derrida (the Philosopher responsible for deconstruction) are relevant to our design of a Problem Tour. Problem A deconstructive approach to problem solving puts in question the concept of "problem" and the notion of "solution." "Problema can signify projection or protection, that which one poses or throws in front of oneself, either as the projection of a project, of a task to accomplish