Rational Choice -- Adam Brown, BYU Political Science

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Summaries tagged Rational Choice

Allison: Conceptual models and the Cuban Missile Crisis
Baron: Political action versus voluntarism in social dilemmas and aid for the needy
Bendor and Hammond: Rethinking Allison's models
Blais: To vote or note to vote
Conradt and Roper: Consensus decision making in animals
Dahl: Preface to democratic theory
Dowding: Is it rational to vote
Dubner and Levitt: Why vote
Edlin, Gelman, and Kaplan: Voting as a rational choice
Fearon: Rationalist explanations for war
Feddersen: Rational choice theory and the paradox of not voting
Finnemore and Sikkink: International norm dynamics and political change
Fowler: Altruism and turnout
Franklin: Voter turnout and the dynamics of electoral competition in established democracies since 1945
Geys: 'Rational' theories of voter turnout
Geys: Explaining voter turnout
Grafstein: An evidential decision theory of turnout
Jackman and Miller: Social capital and politics
Jankowski: Altruism and the decision to vote
Jankowski: Buying a lottery ticket to help the poor
Jervis: Hypotheses on misperception
Kahler: Rationality in international relations
Katzenstein and et al: The role of theory in comparative politics
Lake and Rothchild: Containing fear
Levy: Prospect theory, rational choice, and international relations
Lupia and McCubbins: The Democratic Dilemma
Moe: Power and Political Institutions
Morrow: The strategic setting of choices
Mueller: Public Choice III
Norris: Democratic Phoenix
Norris: Electoral engineering
North: A neoclassical theory of the state
Prins: Ecology and behavior of the African buffalo
Quattrone and Tversky: Causal versus diagnostic contingencies
Riker: Federalism, in Handbook of Political Science
Riker: Political science and rational choice
Shepsle: Studying Institutions
Smith: Constructivist and ecological rationality in economics
Van Evera: Offense, defense, and the causes of war
Weber: Methodology of the Social Sciences
Williamson: The economics of organization

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This portion of my website (/notes/) is the site formerly known as wikisum.com. Many years ago, my friends in graduate school and I would routinely share our reading notes with one another. We all read each article, but we crowdsourced the responsibility of summarizing our readings. When we were preparing for our comprehensive exams, I collected many of these summaries from peers and imported them into a wiki (wikisummary, or wikisum), hoping it would take off and attract hordes of graduate students and political scientists interested in maintaining an up-to-date knowledge base of all political science has to offer. It turns out I was too optimistic. Hundreds of people read the summaries, but almost nobody contributed new ones. Eventually, I quit renewing the wikisum domain and converted the contents into this static website. The summaries grow more dated each year, but since they might still have some use, they're still here—even if the name "wikisum" has become a bit of a misnomer. Enjoy.