The weakness of strong ties: Collective action failure in a highly cohesive groupFootnote*We are grateful to Siegwart Lindenberg, Werner Raub, Frans N. Stokman, Rene Torenvlied, Peter Mühlau and Tom Boone for their careful criticisms and suggestions. Authors are listed alphabetically based on equal contributions. The paper was drafted during a research visit by the first author to Brandeis University, financed by the Dutch Science Foundation (grant no. SIR 12–1522). The second author wishes to acknowledge the support of the U.S. National Science Foundation (grant no. SBR‐9312432). Direct all correspondence to Andreas Flache, email: [email protected]. Frans Stokman acknowledges and thanks NIAS, The Netherlands Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities and Social Science, Wassenaar, The Netherlands for partial support for his editorial work.
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