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Putting choice before democracy : a critique of rational choice theory / Emily Hauptmann.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hauptmann, Emily.
- Series:
- SUNY series in political theory. Contemporary issues
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Democracy.
- Rational choice theory.
- Physical Description:
- ix, 138 pages ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Albany : State University of New York Press, [1996]
- Summary:
- In this critique of rational choice theory, Emily Hauptmann explores the idea central to the theory, namely, that democracy can best be explained in terms of and economic conception of choice. Her argument turns on the claims that the choices we face as citizens are not reducible to the choices we face as consumers and that democracy cannot be reduced to a series of choices, economic or otherwise.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 125-134) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0791430278
- 0791430286
- OCLC:
- 33102668
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