The Handbook of Rational Choice Social Research
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.

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The Handbook of Rational Choice Social Research
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.

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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. 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.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780804784184
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Publication date: 06/05/2013
Pages: 624
Product dimensions: 7.30(w) x 10.10(h) x 1.60(d)

About the Author

Rafael Wittek is Professor of Theoretical Sociology at the University of Groningen. Tom A. B. Snijders is Professor of Statistics in the Social Sciences at the University of Oxford and the University of Groningen. Victor Nee is the Frank and Rosa Rhodes Professor in the Department of Sociology at Cornell University.

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Johnson’s extremely rich and subtle work, the first in-depth look at the slave markets, never lets the reader forget the reality that this was a trade in human beings… Among the most striking and important aspects of the book is the way Johnson makes clear the resistance of enslaved African-Americans to becoming mere items of property… Johnson teaches us that, despite the insistence of white slaveholders that slaves were simply possessions, enslaved African-Americans routinely asserted their humanity and forced slaveholders to take this into account when bringing people to market. At the same time that Johnson keeps the spotlight squarely on the humanity of enslaved African-Americans, he also presents a complicated account of those who went to the markets to buy… Anyone interested in American history must strive to understand something about slavery, and as Johnson shows us, the event of the sale of one human being to another is at the center of the story of slavery. The horror of that transaction remains so powerful that even today descendants of its victims, as well as of its perpetrators, are still trying to comprehend it. Walter Johnson’s important book makes a valuable contribution to that endeavor.

Table of Contents

Contributors ix

Introduction: Rational Choice Social Research Rafael Wittek Tom A. B. Snijders Victor Nee 1

Part I Rationality and Decision-making

1 Rationality, Social Preferences, and Strategic Decision-making from a Behavioral Economics Perspective Simon Gächter 33

2 Social Rationality, Self-Regulation, and Well-Being: The Regulatory Significance of Needs, Goals, and the Self Siegwart Lindenberg 72

3 Rational Choice Research on Social Dilemmas: Embeddedness Effects on Trust Vincent Buskens Werner Raub 113

4 Modeling Collective Decision-making Frans N. Stokman Jelle Van der Knoop Reinier C. H. Van Oosten 151

Part II Networks and Inequality

5 Social-Exchange, Power, and Inequality in Networks Karen S. Cook Coye Cheshire 185

6 Social Capital Henk Flap Beate Völker 220

7 Network Dynamics Tom A. B. Snijders 252

Part III Communities and Cohesion

8 Rational Choice Research in Criminology: A Multi-Level Framework Ross L. Matsueda 283

9 Secularization: Theoretical Controversies Generating Empirical Research Nan Dirk De Graaf 322

10 Assimilation as Rational Action in Contexts Defined by Institutions and Boundaries Victor Nee Richard Alba 355

Part IV States and Conflicts

11 Terrorism and the State Ignacio Sánchez-Cuenca 381

12 Choosing War: State Decisions to Initiate and End Wars and Observe the Peace Afterward James D. Morrow 411

13 Rational Choice Approaches to State-Making Edgar Kiser Erin Powers 443

Part V Markets and Organizations

14 Market Design and Market Failure Carlos Cañón Guido Friebel Paul Seabright 473

15 Organizational Governance Nicolai J. Foss Peter G. Klein 513

16 Rational Choice and Organizational Change Rafael Wittek Atjen Van Witteloostuijn 556

Index 589

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