It’s the weather, stupid! Individual participation in collective May Day demonstrations
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- Peter Kurrild-Klitgaard, 2013. "It’s the weather, stupid! Individual participation in collective May Day demonstrations," Public Choice, Springer, vol. 155(3), pages 251-271, June.
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Keywords
Collective action; demonstrations; free-riding; public choice; rationality;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- P36 - Political Economy and Comparative Economic Systems - - Socialist Institutions and Their Transitions - - - Consumer Economics; Health; Education and Training; Welfare, Income, Wealth, and Poverty
- H41 - Public Economics - - Publicly Provided Goods - - - Public Goods
- H23 - Public Economics - - Taxation, Subsidies, and Revenue - - - Externalities; Redistributive Effects; Environmental Taxes and Subsidies
- P16 - Political Economy and Comparative Economic Systems - - Capitalist Economies - - - Capitalist Institutions; Welfare State
- D70 - Microeconomics - - Analysis of Collective Decision-Making - - - General
- A13 - General Economics and Teaching - - General Economics - - - Relation of Economics to Social Values
- H11 - Public Economics - - Structure and Scope of Government - - - Structure and Scope of Government
- J51 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Labor-Management Relations, Trade Unions, and Collective Bargaining - - - Trade Unions: Objectives, Structure, and Effects
- D74 - Microeconomics - - Analysis of Collective Decision-Making - - - Conflict; Conflict Resolution; Alliances; Revolutions
- D72 - Microeconomics - - Analysis of Collective Decision-Making - - - Political Processes: Rent-seeking, Lobbying, Elections, Legislatures, and Voting Behavior
- D61 - Microeconomics - - Welfare Economics - - - Allocative Efficiency; Cost-Benefit Analysis
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-CDM-2011-01-16 (Collective Decision-Making)
- NEP-POL-2011-01-16 (Positive Political Economics)
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