William James Booth / Patrick James / Hudson Meadwell (eds.)

Politics and Rationality

Herausgeber: Booth, William James; Meadwell, Hudson; James, Patrick

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A collection of outstanding scholarship applying rational choice theory to three principal fields of political inquiry: comparative politics, international relations and political philosophy.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. September 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 466g
• ISBN-13: 9780521435680
• ISBN-10: 0521435684
• Artikelnr.: 21946973

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction; Part I. Political Theory: 1. Liberty and social choice
Amartya Sen; 2. The contractarian explanation of the state Jean Hampton; 3.
Marx's two logics of capitalism William James Booth; Part II. Comparative
Politics; 4. Structure, culture and action in the explanation of social
change Michael Taylor; 5. Wage negotiations and strikes: an equilibrium
analysis Peter Lange and George Tsebelis; 6. A game theoretic model of
reform in Latin American democracies Barbara Geddes; 7. Transitions to
independence and ethnic nationalist mobilisation Hudson Meadwell; Part III.
International Politics: 8. Economic nationalism and economic progress
Mancur Olson; 9. Comparative advantage and public security perceptions in
western alliance security policies Mark A. Boyer; 10. Mediators, allies and
opportunities: third parties in international crises T. Clifton Morgan; 11.
Rational choice in the crisis domain: an appraisal of superpower
interactions, 1948-79 Patrick James.