Social Production Functions, Deficits, and Social Revolutions

Siegwart Lindenberg
Additional contact information
Siegwart Lindenberg: University of Gröningen

Rationality and Society, 1989, vol. 1, issue 1, 51-77

Abstract: Two issues are unresolved for a theory of social revolution: (1) Under what circumstances is it likely that different groups in a society become destabilized within a short period of time? (2) Given the potential for free ride and the high risks of participation, how is rebellious action possible? While written within the context of rational choice theory, the article departs from conventional rational choice theories in major ways. In particular, the new theory emphasizes the usefulness of regarding individual actors as producers subject to framing effects. By attending to the consequences of governmental actions for individuals, the theory supplies a new interpretation of what happened in prerevolutionary France and Russia.

Date: 1989
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (12)

Downloads: (external link)
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1043463189001001005 (text/html)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:sae:ratsoc:v:1:y:1989:i:1:p:51-77

DOI: 10.1177/1043463189001001005

Access Statistics for this article

More articles in Rationality and Society
Bibliographic data for series maintained by SAGE Publications ().