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Selective incentives are Olson's solution to the collective action problem.
Many organizations provide selective incentives on top of the collective good, but selective incentives cannot be the main motivation of members of an organization primarily devoted to lobbying.
However, in order for positive selective incentives to work, individuals who take part in collective action must be identified; and for negative selective incentives, those who do not take part must be identified.
Olson suggested that collective action problems were solved in large groups by the use of selective incentives.
Industry lobbies solve this collective action problem by offering "selective incentives" to contribute through trade associations and other legal entities.
These selective incentives might be extra rewards contingent upon taking part in the action or penalties imposed on those who do not.
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"Most groups cannot provide themselves with optimal amounts of a collective good," he said, because they cannot manage a "selective incentive" or arrange "coercion or some reward".
The organizations we sampled do not rely exclusively, and seldom preponderantly, on selective monetary incentives, but rather employ a composite portfolio of the two types.
Selective financial incentives can improve quality of health services [ 59].
Because this was the first study of its type, we did not have any strong a priori predictions regarding whether common or selective effects of incentive type would be observed.
This payment method is explicitly intended to reduce incentives for selective enrollment.
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