Part one of term paper
"Everybody's business is nobody's business." Russell Hardin, Collective Choice, 1982. The social phenomena discussed in this series of essays all center around the problem of individuals in groups faced with the choice of doing what is best for themselves or what is best for the group. Instances of the phenomena are called by many different ...

Part two of term paper
... department at any university.[1] But you can specialize in certain aspects of the general problem by signing up in the Political or Economics departments (and possibly others). In particular, several universities now offer an advanced degree specializing in what is called Public Choice Theory. Public Choice Theory is directed toward the study of politics. I would think you would be immediately puzzled by this, since most universities already have a Political Science department. The problem is ...