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Title

The rational choice controversy : economic models of politics reconsidered / edited by Jeffrey Friedman.

Publication

New Haven [Conn.] : Yale University Press, 1996.

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Additional Authors

Friedman, Jeffrey.

Description

307 pages; 22 cm

Summary

• Pathologies of Rational Choice Theory, a book written by Donald Green and Ian Shapiro and published in 1994, excited much controversy among political scientists and promoted a dialogue that was printed in a double issue of the journal Critical Review in 1995. This new book reproduces thirteen essays from that journal written by senior scholars in the field, along with an introduction by the editor of the journal, Jeffrey Friedman, and a rejoinder to the essays by Green and Shapiro.
• The scholars - who include John Ferejohn, Morris P. Fiorina, Stanley Kelley, Jr., Robert E. Lane, Peter C. Ordeshook, Norman Schofield, and Kenneth A. Shepsle - criticize, agree with, or build on Green and Shapiro's critique. Together the essays provide an interesting and accessible way of focusing on completing approaches to the study of politics and the social sciences.

Subject

• Political science > Methodology
• Rational choice theory

Note

• Orginally published as: Critical Review, vol. 9, nos. 1-2 : Critical Review Foundation, 1995.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 277-300) and index.

Contents

• Ian Shapiro -- Introduction: Economic Approaches to Politics / Jeffrey Friedman -- The Secret Existence of Expressive Behavior / Robert P. Abelson -- Rational Choice Theory's Mysterious Rivals / Dennis Chong -- Rational Choice and the Role of Theory in Political Science / Daniel Diermeier -- Unification, Universalism, and Rational Choice Theory / John Ferejohn and Debra Satz -- Rational Choice, Empirical Contributions, and the Scientific Enterprise / Morris P. Fiorina -- The Promise and Limitations of Rational Choice Theory / Stanley Kelley, Jr. -- What Rational Choice Explains / Robert E. Lane -- The Poverty of Green and Shapiro / Susanne Lohmann -- Rational Choice Theory as Social Physics / James Bernard Murphy -- Engineering or Science: What Is the Study of Politics? / Peter C. Ordeshook -- Rational Choice and Political Economy / Norman Schofield -- Statistical Political Philosophy and Positive Political Theory / Kenneth A. Shepsle --
• When Rationality Fails / Michael Taylor -- Pathologies Revisited: Reflections on Our Critics.

ISBN

0300068212 (alk. paper)

LCCN

96017325

OCLC

ocm34623675

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries