Abstract
Collective action research is an area of vital important and global scope. This paper will provide a synthesis of previous research done in the subject of collective action decision making, with an extension into the causal links of sustained collective action solution breakdowns. Historically, there has been very little scholarship into the area of collective action as quantitative empirical studies. This paper will add to the literature of both collective action as well as quantitative analysis in this area. The models included test external factors that affect the breakdown of previously sustained collective action solutions: use of communication technologies, increased immigration, increased emigration, environmental stressors, increased industrialization, and increase in outside economic interests. This thesis finds a relationship between collective action failures and decreased use of communication technologies, increased emigration, and environmental stressors, all of which is supported by previously held theory. Although further analysis is needed to justify the scope and range of these relationships, and the particular nuances in how they affect collective action solutions, this is promising evidence that the theory in the area of collective action breakdowns is solid and has practical policy applications.