The Handbook of Rational Choice Social Research 1st Edition by Rafael Wittek, Tom Snijders, Victor Nee ISBN 0804784183 9780804784184

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ISBN 10: 0804784183

ISBN 13: 9780804784184 

Author: Rafael Wittek, Tom Snijders, Victor Nee 

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. Each chapter uses a rational choice framework to elaborate on testable hypotheses and then apply this to empirical research, including experimental research, survey studies, ethnographies, and historical investigations. Useful to students and scholars across the social sciences, this handbook will reinvigorate discussions about the utility and versatility of the rational choice approach, its key assumptions, and tools.

Table of contents:

Part 1: Rationality and Decision-making

1. Rationality, Social Preferences, and Strategic Decision-making from a Behavioral Economics Perspective
2. Social Rationality, Self-Regulation, and Well-Being: The Regulatory Significance of Needs, Goals, and the Self
3. Rational Choice Research on Social Dilemmas: Embeddedness Effects on Trust
4. Modeling Collective Decision-making

Part II: Networks and Inequality
5. Social Exchange, Power, and Inequality in Networks
6. Social Capital
7. Network Dynamics

Part III: Communities and Cohesion
8. Rational Choice Research in Criminology: A Multi-Level Framework
9. Secularization: Theoretical Controversies Generating Empirical Research
10. Assimilation as Rational Action in Contexts Defined by Institutions and Boundaries

Part IV: States and Conflicts
11. Terrorism and the State
12. Choosing War: State Decisions to Initiate and End Wars and Observe the Peace Afterward
13. Rational Choice Approaches to State-Making

Part V: Markets and Organizations
14. Market Design and Market Failure
15. Organizational Governance
16. Rational Choice and Organizational Change

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