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

Politics and Rationality

Rational Choice in Application
Herausgeber: Booth, William James; Meadwell, Hudson; James, Patrick

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Produktbeschreibung

Rational choice approaches to the study of politics are of great and growing prominence in political science. There are an increasing number of collections devoted to the methods of rational choice theory and specialised monographs applying it to individual topics. The present volume is a collection of substantive applications of rational choice theory in three of the main fields of political inquiry: comparative politics, international relations and political theory. The essays gathered here represent work by many of the most outstanding scholars in the discipline, showing how rational choice theory may be employed in the analysis of fundamental political questions.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. September 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 616g
• ISBN-13: 9780521434096
• ISBN-10: 0521434092
• Artikelnr.: 35453964

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.