Original scientific paper

Dušan Pavlović orcid.org/0000-0003-3941-1539 ; Faculty of Political Sciences, Belgrade, Serbia

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.

Keywords

politics; collective action; free riding; Prisoners’s dilemma; social dilemma; allocative efficiency; distribution

Hrčak ID:

145955

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/145955

Publication date:

12.9.2011.

Article data in other languages: serbian

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