The handbook of rational choice social research / edited by Rafael Wittek, Tom A.B. Snijders, Victor Nee.

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TextPublisher: Stanford, California : Stanford Social Sciences, an imprint of Stanford University Press, [2013]Copyright date: ©2013Description: 1 online resource (xiii, 610 pages) : illustrationsContent type:

text

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9780804785501
0804785503

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330.01

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HM495 .H36 2013eb

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Rational Choice Social Research / Rafael Wittek, Tom A.B. Snijders, and Victor Nee -- 1. Rationality, Social Preferences, and Strategic Decision-making from a Behavioral Economics Perspective / Simon Gächter -- 2. Social Rationality, Self-Regulation, and Well-Being : The Regulatory Significance of Needs, Goals, and the Self / Siegwart Lindenberg -- 3. Rational Choice Research on Social Dilemmas : Embeddedness Effects on Trust / Vincent Buskens and Werner Raub -- 4. Modeling Collective Decision-making / Frans N. Stokman, Jelle Van der Knoop, and Reinier C.H. Van Oosten -- 5. Social Exchange, Power, and Inequality in Networks / Karen S. Cook and Coye Cheshire -- 6. Social Capital / Henk Flap and Beate Völker -- 7. Network Dynamics / Tom A.B. Snijders -- 8. Rational Choice Research in Criminology : A Multi-Level Framework / Ross L. Matsueda -- 9. Secularization : Theoretical Controversies Generating Empirical Research / Nan Dirk De Graaf -- 10. Assimilation as Rational Action in Contexts Defined by Institutions and Boundaries / Victor Nee and Richard Alba -- 11. Terrorism and the State / Ignacio Sánchez-Cuenca -- 12. Choosing War : State Decisions to Initiate and End Wars and Observe the Peace Afterward / James D. Morrow -- 13. Rational Choice Approaches to State-Making / Edgar Kiser and Erin Powers -- 14. Market Design and Market Failure / Carlos Cañón, Guido Friebel, and Paul Seabright -- 15. Organizational Governance / Nicolai J. Foss and Peter G. Klein -- 16. Rational Choice and Organizational Change / Rafael Wittek and Arjen Van WitteloostuijnIndex.

Summary: The Handbook of Rational Choice Social Research offers the first comprehensive overview of how the rational choice paradigm can inform empirical research within the social sciences. This landmark collection highlights successful empirical applications across a broad array of disciplines, including sociology, political science, economics, history, and psychology. Taking on issues ranging from financial markets and terrorism to immigration, race relations, and emotions, and a huge variety of other phenomena, rational choice proves a useful tool for theory- driven social research.

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The Handbook of Rational Choice Social Research offers the first comprehensive overview of how the rational choice paradigm can inform empirical research within the social sciences. This landmark collection highlights successful empirical applications across a broad array of disciplines, including sociology, political science, economics, history, and psychology. Taking on issues ranging from financial markets and terrorism to immigration, race relations, and emotions, and a huge variety of other phenomena, rational choice proves a useful tool for theory- driven social research.