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Racionalnost i politika: jedan mogući način izvođenja koncepta politike
Rationalism And Politics: A Possible Derivation Of A Concept Of Politics

Author(s): Dušan Pavlović
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences
Published by: Fakultet političkih nauka Univerziteta u Beogradu & Fakultet političkih znanosti u Zagrebu
Keywords: politics; collective action; free riding; Prisoners’s dilemma; social dilemma; allocative efficiency; distribution.

Summary/Abstract: The article is an attempt to theoretically derive a concept of politics from the rational choice theory. It claims that politics emerges as an interaction that attempts to solve the collective action problem (free riding) by establishing and controlling institutions that allocate and distribute public goods and socially valued resources. the first part (sections 3-6) lays out basic collective action issues that serve to understand the social dilemma (section 7). Section 8 discusses time discounting problem and the social dilemma.

  • Issue Year: 1/2011
  • Issue No: 02
  • Page Range: 63-89
  • Page Count: 27
  • Language: Serbian