Rational Choice
Rational choice and neoliberal theories of the intellectual commons: A critical analysis
... of rational choice theorists regarding the objects of their analysis, their core elements and interrelations and, finally, the stated goals of their theoretical endeavours, are also laden with specific ...
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What can rational choice theory add to the study of Australian politics?
... It is clear from this formula that if P is trivially small, as in most elections, then the cost of voting (registration, getting to the poll, waiting in line, etc) will almost always be higher than PB. Given this, we ...
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Rationality and Rational Choice Research Paper
... Riker, rational choice theory elevated the question of whether political actors— from voters on through institutional actors such as political parties, elected officials, government bureaucrats, or even ...
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A reason based theory of rational choice
... Standard rational choice theory, as we have noted, takes preferences over possible worlds or fully speci- …ed outcomes – the alternatives in our theory – to be fundamental and unchangeable and thus cannot ...
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The measurement of utility and subjective probability. A proposal for the operationalization of rational choice theory
... die Rational Choice Theorie (RCT) in den letzten Jahrzehnten in der Sozio- logie weite Verbreitung gefunden hat, wird die empirische Anwendung und direkte Überprüfung der Theorie noch immer eher ...
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Rational Choice, Deterrence, and Social Learning Theory in Criminology: The Path Not Taken
... A rapidly developing body of literature on rational choice, while recognizing links to deterrence theory and proposing links to social control theory, has largely ignored the social beha[r] ...
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Rational Choice of Following Muhammadiyah and Nahdlatul Ulama and Their Social and Political Role in Indonesian Society
... Ulama. Rational choice is attempt to explain all (agreement or disagreement) so- cial phenomenon in terms of how self-interested individuals make choices under the influence of their ...tional choice ...
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F A Hayek and his rational choice of monetary arrangements
... “the choice between free banking without regard to national borders and international central bank-depends crucially on spelling out the criteria of good monetary policy and comparing the alternative systems’ ...
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Socialism and entrepreneurship: A rational choice approach to an issue of compatibility
... 'Feasible socialism' (Nove, 1991) has recently attracted considerable attention and philosophers and economists like Jon Elster (1989), John Roemer (1994), Philippe Van Parijs (1995) and Gerry Cohen (1995) have ...
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Rational choice by two sequential criteria
... of rational choice under multiple ...valued choice functions that are rational by two sequential criteria, which follows the approach initiated by Manzini and Mariotti [16] for single-valued ...
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Overeducation of University Graduates: A Voluntary and Rational Choice of Individuals—The Case of Three Greek Universities
... Overeducation of university graduates is considered by many theories as a market phenomenon resulting from market imbalances, market imperfec- tions, and/or job mobility restrictions. Thus, overeducated individuals are ...
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Indecisiveness, Undesirability and Overload Revealed Through Rational Choice Deferral
... of choice deferral, one for each of the above potential sources of this ...is rational in the sense that whenever the agent decides to choose a feasible option rather than to defer, his choices are ...
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Three comments on ”Gordon Tullock and the rational choice commitment”
... Fortunately for the rest of us, there are still so many insightful nuggets from Tullock lying around, ready to be picked up--perhaps more than many think. I find Boettke’s points regarding Tullock’s approach being more ...
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Rational Choice Theory: Toward a Psychological, Social, and Material Contextualization of Human Choice Behavior
... as rational actors are defined prior to, or in a certain sense out- side of, the social system or situation in which they act ...of rational choice theory as a social science methodology is that the ...
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Rational Choice Theory: An Overview
... A fourth element of rational choice analy- sis is a discussion of how the choices of dif- ferent agents are made consistent with one another. A situation with consistent choices in which each agent is ...
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Governance, rational choice and New Public Management (NPM): a general view (and some critics)
... However, rational choice analysis has revealed the instability (and the chaos) resulting of political formation without institutional structures that narrow broad sets of ...make rational ...
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Rational Choice and EU Politics
... of rational choice institutional- ism, in which formal and (to a lesser extent) informal institutions have been reintroduced to the rational choice study of American, com- parative and ...
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The rational choice dictator : a reply [debate]
... There may be some confusion between the private rational choice of individuals and issues of social rationality. 11 There is a long tradition of empirical inquiry by western economists into whether or not ...
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Parenting style and antisocial pathways : the implications of rational choice assumptions in crime prevention
... The concluding chapter which follows, outlines how current rational choice assumptions in crime prevention, while advocating early intervention, community and service collaboration and i[r] ...
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The effect of numeracy and affect on adherence to rational choice principles in decisions under risk
... that choice processes differed between the two ...of choice information were not solely phonological in ...their choice was, would seem to lend some support to this ...
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