Please answer the following question in an essay of 2-3 double-spaced pages. Your answer will be graded based on its quality as well as its accuracy. The best essays will answer the question in detail and not simply treat it in a superficial manner.
Essay Question:
Why do people join (or decline to join) interest groups? Discuss at least three categories of incentives that make people more likely to join interest groups. Next, define and explain what the free-rider problem is and then discuss at least three strategies for overcoming the free-rider problem – you must be creative with these strategies as you are required to develop them on your own, they are not in the textbook.
Writing Details:
Adjust your document settings to make sure your writing conforms to academic standards by doing the following: Use Times New Roman, 12-point font. Use one-inch margins on all sides. Do not include extra spaces between paragraphs. Number your pages. Perform a spell check before submission. Do not take up half the first page by including the name of this course, my name, the date, etc. Just your name at the top will be sufficient. Do not make bulleted lists. Write in complete sentences and paragraphs. Do not simply copy and paste from the textbook. Put the information into your own words.
Citations:
You are not required to research this question beyond the material presented in your textbook and the PowerPoint chapter outlines. However, if you do use a source for your essay other than the textbook and chapter outlines, you must give credit to that source by correcting and citing it. The general rule is that you must cite all information and ideas you get from an outside source, including ideas that you put into your own words. You are not expected to cite common knowledge or your own thinking (for example, that the sky is blue). Citations should appear in parenthesis in the text as: (author year, page number). You should put a citation at the end of the sentence that contains the information from your source. Please use Chicago Manual of Style (the author-date, in-text citation style system) as the citation style.
Writing Assignment Grading Guide:
Discussion of incentives: 10 points
Discussion of free-rider problem: 5 points
Discussion of strategies: 5 points
Grammar and instructions followed: 5 points
How to Submit Your Writing Assignment:
Click on Unit 7 content from the course home page on Canvas. This is where you will find Reaction Paper 2 and what is required for this assignment. After you have thoroughly read through the instructions please attach your paper and click ‘submit’. Please make sure your paper is only in a word document!
* If it helps for organizational purposes you might want to think about using headings for your paper. Also do not upload your paper from a zip file wps file or any other file that is not a Microsoft word doc or rtf (rich text file), this makes it extremely difficult for me as an instructor to access your assignment. You will be deducted points if you use any other method where I cannot access it and thus considered late work. Please use a standard Microsoft word document (i.e. doc file).
