ABSTRACT
The standard approach to collective action and agency is to take the very best accounts of individual action and agency and simply "collectivize" them. WRR (wash rinse and repeat) is implicit in virtually every account of collective action and agency. After all, collective action and agency are just special cases of action and agency. First, a unified account of collective action and agency proves challenging because groups are very different from individuals, as well as from each other. The author considers to construct a more satisfactory theory of collective action and agency. Similarly, it is not a foregone conclusion that a uniquely "collective" form of agency is present if a collective action is performed, just as there is no uniquely "aggregate" form of agency. If WRR is kept to the view that collective intentions are present in a much range of collective actions, even if there is no "collective agency." This turns out to be a natural position to hold.
