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

Format:

• Book

Contributor:

• Wittek, Rafael, 1965- editor.
• Snijders, T. A. B., editor.
• Nee, Victor, 1945- editor.
• ebrary, Inc.
• Harry E. Humphreys Book Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Rational choice theory.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Stanford, California : Stanford Social Sciences, an imprint of Stanford University Press, 2013.

System Details:

text file

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. 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. Book jacket.

Contents:

• Rationality, social preferences and strategic decision-making from a behavioral economics perspective / Simon Gächter
• Social rationality, self-regulation and well-being : the regulatory significance of needs, goals, and the self / Siegwart Lindenberg
• Rational choice research on social dilemmas : embeddedness effects on trust / Vincent Buskens and Werner Raub
• Modeling collective decision making / Frans N. Stokman, Jelle Van der Knoop, Reinier C.H. Van Oosten
• Social exchange, power and inequality in networks / Karen S. Cook and Coye Cheshire
• Social capital / Henk Flap and Beate Völker
• Network dynamics / Tom A.B. Snijders
• Rational choice research in criminology : a multi-level framework / Ross L. Matsueda
• Secularization : theoretical controversies generating empirical research / Nan Dirk De Graaf
• Assimilation as rational action in contexts defined by institutions and boundaries / Victor Nee and Richard Alba
• Terrorism and the state / Ignacio Sánchez-Cuenca
• Choosing war : state decisions to initiate and end wars and observe the peace afterwards / James D. Morrow
• Rational choice approaches to state-making / Edgar Kiser and Erin Powers
• Market design and market failure / Carlos Cañón, Guido Friebel and Paul Seabright
• Organizational governance / Nicolai J. Foss and Peter G. Klein
• Rational choice and organizational change / Rafael Wittek and Arjen Van Witteloostuijn.

Notes:

• Description based on print version record.
• Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. Available via World Wide Web.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Harry E. Humphreys Book Fund.

ISBN:

• 0804785503
• 9780804785501

Publisher Number:

99954249423

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.

Online:

The Harry E. Humphreys Book Fund Home Page