Authority and Obedience

Stanley Milgram Experiment

Leadership vacuum

Kofi Annan characterises the greatest problem of contemporary times to be absence of good leaders. Where are the leaders in your case study of collective action (poster) drawing their legitimacy?

What happened to movements?

"Many many years ago there was a species called social movements..." What will be the state of affairs when I tell this story to a younger generation?

Technical and Adaptive Leaders

Keeping the poster assignment in mind, each of your social movement would have one or more leaders. How are each of them exhibiting characteristics of technical/adaptive leadership?

Control Over Resources and Action Orientation

Let us study this matrix which helps us to better understand different types of organisatisational strategies when we keep control over resources and action orientation separatey for individuals and for collectively. What instances from real life fits in where?

Cycle of Poverty and Third Dimension of Power

How can vertical and horizontal integration of services of collectives help the poor communities to break the cycle of poverty? How could all three dimensions of power be effectively used by the collectives to manage the diversity of resource basis and aspirations?

Heterogenous and Homogenous Collective Action Contexts

Insider-outsider problem is a difficult nut when it comes to the question of Commons. The heterogenity of outsiders is a manageable issue if the insiders have strong unity and when they are homogenous. The problem gets complex when the insiders are heterogenous. Small sections within insiders have some strong linkages with outsiders (which may be heterogenous or homogenous).