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Rational choice

open access: yes, 2015
Publisher Description: Assuming no prior knowledge, this widely-used and critically-acclaimed text provides a clear introduction to, and uniquely fair-minded assessment of, Rational Choice approaches.
Taylor, Brad, Hindmoor, Andrew
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Voting choice and rational choice

open access: yes, 2016
Rational choice theory may seem like a separate theoretical approach with its own forbidding mathematics. However, the central assumptions of rational choice theory are very similar to those in mainstream political behavior and even interpretive ...
McGann, Anthony
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Rational choice

open access: yes, 2017
A broad-ranging and pluralistic textbook which highlights the rich variety of approaches to studying politics. Written by an international team of experts, this fully revised fourth edition offers cutting-edge coverage from fundamental to contemporary ...
Taylor, Brad, Hindmoor, Andrew
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Rationalizing Investors Choice [PDF]

open access: yesSSRN Electronic Journal, 2014
Assuming that agents' preferences satisfy first-order stochastic dominance, we show how the Expected Utility paradigm can rationalize all optimal investment choices: the optimal investment strategy in any behavioral law-invariant (state-independent) setting corresponds to the optimum for an expected utility maximizer with an explicitly derived concave ...
Carole Bernard   +2 more
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Rational-Choice-Institutionalismus als Erklärungsperspektive für politisch-administrative Analysen

open access: yes, 2022
Der Rational-Choice-Institutionalismus ist eine ökonomisch geprägte Theorie der Politikwissenschaft. Seine Interdisziplinarität ermöglicht es, Erklärungsansätze aus wirtschaftswissenschaftlichen und politikwissenschaftlichen Perspektiven abzuleiten ...
John Meister (9874826)
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Identifying Resource-Rational Heuristics for Risky Choice

open access: yes, 2022
Perfectly rational decision-making is almost always out of reach for people because their computational resources are limited. Instead, people may rely on computationally frugal heuristics that usually yield good outcomes.
Sayan Gul   +4 more
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Rational choice theory in light of biopolitics

open access: yesAnnales Universitatis Mariae Curie-Skłodowska. Sectio K, Politologia, 2023
Both rational choice theory and biopolitics are extremely important paradigms in the social sciences - including political science. It would seem that their basic axioms contradict each other because the influence of biopolitical power microstructures ...
Jakub Chustecki
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Rational choice theory: Limitations and alternatives [PDF]

open access: yesSociološki Pregled, 2020
In the focus of the paper there are some basic insights and ideas of rational choice theory, that is the "core" of contemporary economic theory. Also, rational choice theory is the "center" of modern political science and is used in various other ...
Krstić Miloš S.
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Regret and the rationality of choices [PDF]

open access: yesPhilosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 2010
Regret helps to optimize decision behaviour. It can be defined as a rational emotion. Several recent neurobiological studies have confirmed the interface between emotion and cognition at which regret is located and documented its role in decision behaviour.
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Rational Preference in Habitual Interactions

open access: yesHumaniora, 2016
Article focused on human being as a rational creature. Therefore, every undertaken preference could be interpreted as a rational selection. The issue emerged will clarify whether every human action can be categorized as a rational act. This article aimed
Yustinus Suhardi Ruman
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