Preferences, institutions, and rational choice / edited by Keith Dowding and Desmond King
1995, 1st edition. Oxford New York : Clarendon Press ; Oxford University Press. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Not price-clipped. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Item #386737
Physical description; 289 pp., illustrations, 23 cm. Contents; 1. Introduction / Keith Dowding and Desmond King -- 2. The Paradox of Voting and the Theory of Social Evolution / Alan Carling -- 3. Interpreting Formal Coalition Theory / Keith Dowding -- 4. The Rational Basis for Belief in the Democratic Myth / Patrick Dunleavy and Helen Margetts -- 5. Working for Benefits: Rational Choice and Work-Welfare Programmes / Desmond King and Hugh Ward -- 6. Party Competition in Interlinked Political Markets: The European Union and its Member States / Moshe Maor -- 7. Railway Regulation as a Test-bed of Rational Choice / Iain McLean -- 8. Rational Decision in International Crises: A Rationalization / Michael Nicholson -- 9. The Buck in Your Bank is not a Vote for Free Trade: Financial Intermediation and Trade Preferences in the United States and Germany / Cheryl Schonhardt-Bailey and Andrew Bailey -- 10. The Internal Balance of Power and Relative Economic Decline / Hugh Ward -- 11. Rationality, Revolution, and Reassurance / Mark Wickham-Jones. Subjects; Rational choice theory. Decision making.
Price: €45.00