Politics as Rational Action Essays in Public Choice and Policy Analy
One of the most promising trends in modem political science is the develop ment of a theory of politics as rational action. Focussing on choice as the central topic of study, rational choice theorists set out to specify what alter native an actor should
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THEORY AND DECISION LIBRARY AN INTERNATIONAL SERIES IN THE PHILOSOPHY AND METHODOLOGY OF THE SOCIAL AND BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES
Editors GERALD EBERLEIN,
University of Technology, Munich
WERNER LEINFELLNER,
University ofNebraska
Editorial Advisory Board: K. BO RCH,
Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration M. BUNGE,
McGill University University o/Chicago
J. S. COLEMAN,
University ofSaarland A. RAPOPORT, University o/Toronto F. SCHICK, Rutgers University A. SEN, University of Oxford
W. KROEBER-RIEL,
w. STEGMULLER. University ofMunich K. SZANIAWSKI,
University of Warsaw
L. TONDL, Prague A. TVERSKY,
Stanford University
VOLUME 23
POLITICS AS RATIONAL ACTION Essays in Public Choice and Policy Analysis
Edited by LEIF LEWIN and EVERT VEDUNG University of Uppsala
D. REIDEL PUBLISHING COMPANY DORDRECHT : HOLLAND / BOSTON: U.S.A. LONDON: ENGLAND
Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data Main entry under title: Politics as rational action. (Theory and decision library ; v. 23) Includes bibliographies and indexes. 1. Policy sciences-Addresses, essays, lectures. 2. Social choice-Addresses, essays, lectures. I. Lewin, Leif, 1941II. Vedung, Evert, 1938H61.P587 361.6'1 80-11776 ISBN-I3: 978-94-009-8957-3 e-ISBN-I3: 978-94-009-8955-9 DOl: 10.1007/978-94-009-8955-9
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
~eface
WILLIAM H. RIKER / Political Trust as Rational Choice
1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8.
Introduction Trust as an Attitude A DefInition of Trust Deutsch's DefInition of Trust The Inadequacy of the Prisoners' Dilemma Model of Trust Risk in the Prisoners' Dilemma The Assessment of Risk Rational Trust
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1 1 2 6 9 10 15 17 20
MICHAEL TAYLOR / On 'Normative' Rational-Choice Theories of
Politics
25
1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
25 26 28 30 36
Introduction The liberal Theory of the State The Destination of Small Communities The State and the Decay of Voluntary Cooperation Concluding Remarks
ANATOL RAPOPORT I Various Meanings of 'Rational Political
Decisions' 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6.
Meanings of 'Politics' One Actor: Decisions under Certainty One Actor: Decisions under Risk More than One Actor: Noncooperative Games More than One Actor: Cooperative Games Conclusion
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