Choosing an identity : a general model of preference and belief formation /
Annotation Social science research is fragmented by the widely differing and seemingly contradictory approaches used by the different disciplines of the social sciences to explain human action. Attempts at integrating different social science approaches to explain action have often been frustrated b...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Ann Arbor :
University of Michigan Press,
©2001.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- The Success and Failure of Rational Choice
- The Assumptions of the Rational Choice Approach
- The Strengths of Conventional Rational Choice
- The Weaknesses of Conventional Rational Choice
- The Chapter Structure of This Book
- Alternatives to Conventional Rational Choice: A Survey
- Structural Assumptions and Models
- Assumptions about Decision Making
- Preference and Belief Assumptions
- A General Model of Preference and Belief Formation
- An Identity Coherence Model of Preference and Belief Formation
- Assumptions of the Model
- Basic Implications of the Model
- Preference and Belief Change
- Rewards and Preference and Belief Change
- Implications for Dynamic Choice
- Implications for Collective Choice
- Plan for the Following Chapters
- Proofs of Theorems
- Ideology Formation and Policy Choice in Ex-Colonies
- Theories of Policy Formation
- The Conventional Model of the State
- Variations on the Conventional Model of the State
- An Identity Formation Theory of Oppositional Ideology Formation and Policy
- A Statistical Analysis of Economic Intervention
- The Origins of Ethnic Identity and Collective Action
- Rationalist Theories of Ethnic Collective Action
- A Coherence-Rational Choice Theory of Ethnic Group Formation
- Structural Change, Cultural Change, and Civic Violence
- Theories of Tradition and Modernity
- An Coherence Rational Choice Theory of Structural Change, Altruism, and Collective Action
- Modifying the Assumptions of the Model
- Justifications for the Coherence Model.