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Rebellious Collective Action Revisited

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 June 1987

George Klosko ,
Edward N. Muller  and
Karl Dieter Opp
George Klosko
Affiliation:
University of Virginia
Edward N. Muller
Affiliation:
University of Arizona
Karl Dieter Opp
Affiliation:
University of Hamburg
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Abstract

Why does it happen that ordinary people can come to participate in rebellious collective action? In the June 1986 issue of this Review, Edward N. Muller and Karl-Dieter Opp argued a public-goods model to account for why rational citizens may become rebels. They offered empirical data drawn from samples in New York City and Hamburg, Germany in support of the public-goods model. George Kolsko takes issue with the rationale of Muller and Opp, arguing that their public-goods model is not a rational-choice explanation of rebellious collective action. In response, Muller and Opp clarify their theory and further elaborate its assumptions.

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Controversy
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American Political Science Review , Volume 81 , Issue 2 , June 1987 , pp. 557 - 564
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Copyright © American Political Science Association 1987

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