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Coethnicity Diversity and the Dilemmas of Collective Action / James Habyarimana ... [et al.].
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Russell Sage Foundation series on trust.
- Russell Sage Foundation series on trust
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Cooperation.
- Social action.
- Collective behavior.
- Ethnicity.
- Multiculturalism.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (252 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Manufacture:
- Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2012
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Russell Sage Foundation, 2009.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Ethnically homogenous communities often do a better job than diverse communities of producing public goods such as satisfactory schools and health care, adequate sanitation, and low levels of crime.Coethnicity reports the results of a landmark study that aimed to find out why diversity has this cooperation-undermining effect.
- Contents:
- Diversity and collective action
- Public goods provision in Kampala
- Ethnicity and ethnic identifiability
- Testing the mechanisms
- A closer look at reciprocity
- Beyond the lab
- Conclusions.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 219-227) and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-61044-638-0
- OCLC:
- 794701229
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