When a Group Lobbies for Public Goods or Collective Benefits

question 26

Multiple Choice

When a group lobbies for public goods or collective benefits that are so widespread that members and nonmembers alike receive them, incentives to join the group disappear. Mancur Olson called this the

• A) free rider problem.
• B) problem of public goods.
• C) security dilemma.
• D) selective benefits problem.
• E) tragedy of the commons.

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