You are the leader of a student organization working to pass federal legislation that would increase financial aid to college students
What specific strategies could you employ to overcome the free rider/collective action problem in order to build your organization and increase your political clout?
What will be an ideal response?
An ideal response will:
1, Describe the free rider problem as a situation in which individuals can benefit from the group effort without having to contribute to it. As a result, individuals have no incentive to join the group.
2, Identify what kinds of individuals would be likely to free ride in this case: college students who receive or are eligible to receive financial aid.
3, Explain one or more tactics that could be used to convince these students to join the organization. To overcome the free rider problem, the group must offer some kind of incentive—material or otherwise—that is given only to group members.
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