Collective action requires a confluence of shared interests among participants.

Evidence

Before any collective action (say, a strike, election, demonstration, riot) can occur, there must be a confluence of shared interests (Tilly, 1978, pp. 59-62)-though Tilly deliberately skirts the issue of how collective interests come to be perceived and pursued (1978, p. 62), perhaps wisely, Theoretical approaches to explaining collective political violence 581 given his purpose. — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 4302

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Coordinated collective action requires others’ co-action, not just identification — John Drury and Rupert Brown and Roberto González and Daniel Miranda, Emergent social identity and observing…, 113