# kaal:claim:2267560-037

**Claim.** A classic collective action problem controls rulemaking: smaller and better organized special interest groups usually dominate latent groups such as dispersed investors in the competition to shape rules.

**Type.** mechanism  **Support.** evidenced

**Source quote.**

> A classic collective action problem controls rulemaking. In the competition to shape rulemaking, smaller and better organized special interest groups usually dominate latent groups (such as dispersed investors) (Olson 1965).

**From.** Wulf A. Kaal, *Evolution of Law Dynamic Regulation in a New Institutional Economics Framework* (2013), IV.1 Optimizing the Learning Process, page 11

**Cite as.** Wulf A. Kaal, Evolution of Law Dynamic Regulation in a New Institutional Economics Framework (2013). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2267560

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**Failure mode.** special interest dominance in rulemaking  (family: regulatory-capture-and-incumbent-advantage)

**Topics.** institutional-design, regulatory-failure, dynamic-regulation

**Keywords.** collective-action, special-interests, regulatory-capture, rulemaking

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