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The weakness of strong ties: Collective action failure in a highly cohesive groupFootnote*

Andreas Flache Interuniversity Center of Social Science Theory and Methodology (ICS), University of Groningen, Grote Rozenstraat 31, Groningen, 9712 TG, The Netherlands E-mail: [email protected]
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Michael W. Macy Department of Sociology, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA, 02254–9110, USA
Pages 3-28 | Published online: 26 Aug 2010

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