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Social psychology

the smallest number of contributors needed to provide a step-level public good, whose designation by a group helped solve the free-rider problem.

In social psychology, minimal contributing set refers to the smallest number of contributors needed to provide a step-level public good, whose designation by a group helped solve the free-rider problem. This meaning comes from van de Kragt (1983) in American Political Science Review.[1]

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  1. van de Kragt, A. J. C., Orbell, J. M., & Dawes, R. M. (1983). The Minimal Contributing Set as a Solution to Public Goods Problems. American Political Science Review, 77(1), 112-122. https://doi.org/10.2307/1956014

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