48.3 - Collective Agency

Special Issue– The Emergence and Effects of Non-hierarchical Collective Agency. (Johannes Marx & Thomas Gehring)

• Thomas Gehring & Johannes Marx: Group Actors. Why Social Science Should Care About Collective Agency. [Introduction]

Contributions

• Margaret Gilbert: Real Team Reasoning.
• Maximilian Noichl & Johannes Marx: Simulation of Group Agency – From Collective Intentions to Proto-Collective Actors.
• Leyla Ade & Olivier Roy: Team Reasoning from an Evolutionary Perspective: Categorization and Fitness.
• Thomas Gehring: International Organizations as Group Actors. How Institutional Procedures Create Organizational Independence without Delegation to Institutional Agents.
• Matthias Hofferberth & Daniel Lambach: Claims and Recognition: A Relational Approach to Agency in World Politics.
• Nathalie Behnke, Jonas Bernhard &Till Jürgens: Understanding Collective Agency in the Long-Term Perspective: A Historical Comparative Case Study of Local Government Associations in Germany and the United States.
• Elena Frech & Ulrich Sieberer: Coordination Committees and Legislative Agenda-Setting Power in 31 European Parliaments.
• David Beck, Yen-Chieh Liao & Thomas Saalfeld: The Role of Rituals in Adversarial Parliaments: An Analysis of Expressions of Collegiality in the British House of Commons.
• Elisabeth Donat & Barbara Mataloni: Perception of Collective Agency and Networks of Relations: The Case of Regional Parliaments in Four EU Member States.
• Thomas Kestler: How Imagination Takes Power. The Motivational Foundations of Collective Action in Social Movement Mobilization.
• Frank Meier: The Agency of Scientific Disciplines.
• Maike Albertzart: Being Jointly Obligated: A Reductive Account.
• Moritz A. Schulz: So What’s My Part? Collective Duties, Individual Contributions, and Distributive Justice.