Rational Choice
by Hindmoor, AndrewFormat: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2006-08-08
Publisher(s): Palgrave Macmillan
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Summary
The emergence and development of rational choice theory has polarized political science - particularly in the United States, where it has come to dominate much of the subject's research agenda. Its enthusiastic advocates argue that it has revolutionized the study of politics as an academic discipline by setting it on a new scientific basis. Its opponents argue that its success marks a triumph of technical style over explanatory substance and makes a series of implausible assumptions about the reasons why people behave in particular ways, thus offering deeply flawed explanations of why particular events occur.
Author Biography
ANDREW HINDMOOR is Senior Lecturer in Politics, University of Queensland, Australia.
Table of Contents
Introduction * Anthony Downs and the Spatial Theory of Party Competition * William Riker and the Theory of Coalitions * Kenneth Arrow and Social Choice Theory * Mancur Olson and the Logic of Collective Action * William Niskanen and Bureaucracy * Gordon Tullock, Rent-Seeking and Constitutions * The Assumption of Rationality * Rational Choice Explanation
Introduction * Anthony Downs and the Spatial Theory of Party Competition * William Riker and the Theory of Coalitions * Kenneth Arrow and Social Choice Theory * Mancur Olson and the Logic of Collective Action * William Niskanen and Bureaucracy * Gordon Tullock, Rent-Seeking and Constitutions * The Assumption of Rationality * Rational Choice Explanation
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