Collective Action in the Formation of Pre-Modern States

1. Introduction
2. Rethinking the Role of Agency in Political Evolution
3. The Social Actor in Collective Action
4. Selecting a Sample of Societies for Comparative Coding
5. Archaeological and Historical Contexts for the Coded Societies
6. Revenue Sources
7. Public Goods
8. Bureaucratization
9. Modes of Control of Principals
10. Theory Testing and a Question: Is State Formation a Product of Rational Choice or Symbolic Structure?
11. Collective Action Processes at World-Economy, Polity, and Community Scales
12. Collective Action and Political Evolution

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Keywords: SOCIAL SCIENCE / General SOC000000