Ostrom argued that the prisoner's dilemma framework imports assumptions of fixed preferences and no communication that distort rather than represent real collective action situations.

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Collective action(The type of group behavior the model explains): When a group of people coordinate to do something together toward a shared goal (like organizing a strike or a protest).
Fixed preferences(an assumption the prisoner's dilemma makes): The assumption that what people want never changes and is already decided before they interact with others.
Ostrom(refers to research cases studying resource management): Elinor Ostrom was a political scientist who studied how groups of people manage shared resources (like forests or fisheries) without needing a single authority in charge.
Prisoner's Dilemma(Popular discussion context): A scenario in which two players are separated so they cannot communicate, and each must decide whether to confess or refuse, facing incentives that lead to suboptimal collective outcomes.

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