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Understood in terms of the fallacies associated with rational choice theory's predictive and universalist aspirations. Case of the free-rider problem and collective action, as well as the case of suicide terrorism that rational. The pathologies of rational choice lead one to conclude that what rational choicers should be talking. SIX / LEGISLATIVE BEHAVIOR AND THE PARADOX OF VOTING 98. THREE / METHODOLOGICAL PATHOLOGIES 33. V/FIT/E / SOCIAL DILEMMAS AND FREE-RIDING 72. &El RATIONALITY IN POLITICS AND ECONOMICS 1.,TWO / THE NATURE OF RATIONAL CHOICE THEORY.
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This is the first comprehensive critical evaluation of the use of rational choice explanations in political science. Writing in an accessible and nontechnical style, Donald P. Green and Ian Shapiro assess rational choice theory where it is reputed to be most successful: the study of collective action, the behavior of political parties and politicians, and such phenomena as...more
Published September 10th 1996 by Yale University Press (first published September 28th 1994)
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Jun 13, 2011May Ling added it
While I understand that the theories posited in this piece are integral to understanding the basis of game theory, I still think it's missing a bigger picture associated with causality. Now the reality is this book got 3.5 stars because it addressed this issue in the final chapters. However, the failure to frame this book around what this type of analysis can and can not do, was my real problem. The conclusions are quite false of one takes the book at its word without that ever important last ch...more
Nov 28, 2011Mike Edwards rated it it was ok
An attack on rational choice theory, and while it's a fast read, the book relies on a number of straw-men arguments. An over-reliance on the assumption of rational behavior will certainly lead to inaccurate models in some cases, but the version of rational choice theory presented here is so stilted as to be almost unrecognizable to the actual practitioners of rational choice theory.
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