collective actor

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They put emphasis on the fact that the transitional period had created new opportunities for the formation of collective actors.
Political institutions influence the formation of collective actors, their form of organisation and types of alliances.
By contrast, conflicts on non-privileged dimensions are aggregated by a majority rule, so that policy change is favourable to all chambers (as collective actors).
Politics, in modern societies, is a matter of representation, and political decision makers require that political claims be presented to them by legitimate spokespersons who speak for legitimate collective actors.
A major achievement of this collection is that it recognises the accountability of the individual and collective actors complicit in these processes that create and reproduce social inequalities and divisions.
Political parties in democracies have come to be accepted as indispensable collective actors which not the least through competitive elections mediate between government and the electorate.
Individual or collective actors can be said to have social capital when resources are present and accessible, in other words when they are actually available for use.
Public consequences usually involve collective actors, such as countries, states, organizations or social movements.
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