Wittek Rafael, Snijders Tom, Nee Victor (eds.) The Handbook of Rational Choice Social Research

Stanford: Stanford Social Sciences, 2013. — 624 p. — ISBN10: 0804784183; ISBN13: 978-0804784184The Handbook of Rational Choice Social Research offers the first comprehensive overview of how the rational choice paradigm can inform empirical research within the social sciences. This landmark collection highlights successful empirical applications across a broad array of disciplines, including sociology, political science, economics, history, and psychology. Taking on issues ranging from financial markets and terrorism to immigration, race relations, and emotions, and a huge variety of other phenomena, rational choice proves a useful tool for theory- driven social research. Each chapter uses a rational choice framework to elaborate on testable hypotheses and then apply this to empirical research, including experimental research, survey studies, ethnographies, and historical investigations. Useful to students and scholars across the social sciences, this handbook will reinvigorate discussions about the utility and versatility of the rational choice approach, its key assumptions, and tools.Introduction: Rational Choice Social Research. Rafael Wittek, Tom A. B. Snijders, and Victor NeeRationality and Decision-makingRationality, Social Preferences, and Strategic Decision-making from a Behavioral Economics Perspective. Simon Gächter
Social Rationality, Self-Regulation, and Well-Being: The Regulatory Significance of Needs, Goals, and the Self. Siegwart Lindenberg
Rational Choice Research on Social Dilemmas: Embeddedness Effects on Trust. Vincent Buskens and Werner Raub
Modeling Collective Decision-making. Frans N. Stokman, Jelle Van der Knoop, and Reinier C. H. Van OostenNetworks and InequalitySocial Exchange, Power, and Inequality in Networks. Karen S. Cook and Coye Cheshire
Social Capital. Henk Flap and Beate Völker
Network Dynamics. Tom A. B. SnijdersCommunities and CohesionRational Choice Research in Criminology: A Multi-Level Framework. Ross L. Matsueda
Secularization: Theoretical Controversies Generating Empirical Research. Nan Dirk De Graaf
Assimilation as Rational Action in Contexts Defined by Institutions and Boundaries. Victor Nee and Richard AlbaStates and ConflictsTerrorism and the State. Ignacio Sánchez-Cuenca
Choosing War: State Decisions to Initiate and End Wars and Observe the Peace Afterward. James D. Morrow
Rational Choice Approaches to State-Making. Edgar Kiser and Erin PowersMarkets and OrganizationsMarket Design and Market Failure. Carlos Cañón, Guido Friebel, and Paul Seabright Organizational Governance. Nicolai J. Foss and Peter G. Klein
Rational Choice and Organizational Change. Rafael Wittek and Arjen Van Witteloostuijn