  When collective goods can be supplied by government or some other agency, political entrepreneurs might organize the provision. For example, Senator Howard Metzenbaum worked to get legislation on behalf of the poor and of unions, although he was certainly not poor and was not himself a working member of a union. Yet he benefited from his efforts in support of these groups if they voted to keep him in office. Because there is government, collective action of many kinds is far more likely than we might expect from the dismal logic of collective action.