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Resistance and Rebellion
Lessons from Eastern Europe
Av Roger D. Petersen, Jon Elster m. fl.
Häftad, 2006
569 kr
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Resistance and Rebellion: Lessons from Eastern Europe explains how ordinary people become involved in resistance and rebellion against powerful regimes. The book shows how a sequence of casual forces - social norms, focal points, rational calculation - operate to drive individuals into roles of …
The Critical Mass in Collective Action
Av Gerald Marwell, Pamela Oliver
Häftad, 2007
732 kr
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The problem of collective action is that each member of a group wants other members to make necessary sacrifices while he or she 'free rides', reaping the benefits of collective action without doing the work. Inevitably the end result is that no one does the work and the common interest is not …
Minority Government and Majority Rule
Häftad, 2008
716 kr
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Minority governments in parliamentary democracies are conventionally considered to be unstable and ineffective aberrations from the principle of majority rule. Through analysis of over 350 postwar governments, the author shows that minority governments are neither exceptional nor unstable but in …
Were They Pushed or Did They Jump?
Individual Decision Mechanisms in Education
Häftad, 2009
618 kr
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This book explores the factors which govern the range of educational decisions confronting individuals between compulsory school education and university. The data on which it draws come from two surveys conducted in north-west Italy, one of unemployed young people and one of high-school pupils. …
Individual Interests and Collective Action
Studies in Rationality and Social Change
Häftad, 2009
699 kr
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This book brings together the most important theoretical work of James S. Coleman on problems of collective action. Coleman's work has formed a consistent and highly distinguished attempt to find an account of the workings of social and political processes rooted in the rationality of the …
Picoeconomics
The Strategic Interaction of Successive Motivational States within the Person
Häftad, 2010
743 kr
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Originally published in 1992, this book examines an elementary human paradox: that we are endangered by our own wishes; or, as Oscar Wilde put it, 'When the gods want to punish us they answer our prayers.' Even though this observation is ancient and confirmed by wide experience, none of the …
Explaining Technical Change
A Case Study in the Philosophy of Science
Av Jon Elster, Gudmund Hernes m. fl.
Häftad, 1983
549 kr
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Technical change, defined as the manufacture and modification of tools, is generally thought to have played an important role in the evolution of intelligent life on earth, comparable to that of language. In this volume, first published in 1983, Jon Elster approaches the study of technical change …
The Critical Mass in Collective Action
Av Gerald Marwell, Pamela Oliver m. fl.
Inbunden, 1993
1775 kr
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The problem of collective action is that each member of a group wants other members to make necessary sacrifices while he or she 'free rides', reaping the benefits of collective action without doing the work. Inevitably the end result is that no one does the work and the common interest is not …
Stratification and Organization
Selected Papers
Inbunden, 1986
1809 kr
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The essays in this collection, on stratification, organization and the discipline of sociology, all bear upon a general theoretical question: what models of rationality are necessary or suitable to explain individual and collective action in institutional contexts? Professor Stinchcombe was one of …
The Possibility of Cooperation
Av Michael Taylor, Gudmund Hernes m. fl.
Häftad, 1987
468 kr
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This 1987 book offers a critique of the liberal theory of the state, focusing on a detailed study of cooperation in the absence of the state and of other kinds of coercion. The discussion includes an analysis of collective action and of the Prisoners' Dilemma supergame. It is a revised and expanded …
The Multiple Self
Av Jon Elster
Häftad, 1987
878 kr
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The essays in this volume consider the question of whether the self is a unity or whether it should be conceived without metaphor as divided - as a 'multiple self'. The issue is a central one for several disciplines. It bears directly on the account of rationality and the explanation of individual …
Minority Government and Majority Rule
Av Kaare Strøm, Jon Elster
Inbunden, 1990
1970 kr
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Minority governments in parliamentary democracies are conventionally considered to be unstable and ineffective aberrations from the principle of majority rule. Through analysis of over 350 postwar governments, the author shows that minority governments are neither exceptional nor unstable but in …
The Cement of Society
A Survey of Social Order
Av Jon Elster, Gudmund Hernes m. fl.
Häftad, 1989
976 kr
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The question Jon Elster addresses in this challenging book is what binds societies together and prevents them from disintegrating into chaos and war. He analyses two concepts of social order: stable, predictable patterns of behaviour, and co-operative behaviour. The book examines various aspects of …
Foundations of Social Choice Theory
Av Jon Elster, Aanund Hylland m. fl.
Häftad, 1989
634 kr
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The essays in this volume, first published in 1986, examine the philosophical foundations of social choice theory. This field, a modern and sophisticated outgrowth of welfare economics, is best known for a series of impossibility theorems, of which the first and most crucial was proved by Kenneth …
Democracy and the Market
Political and Economic Reforms in Eastern Europe and Latin America
Av Adam Przeworski, Gudmund Hernes m. fl.
Häftad, 1991
390 kr
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The quest for freedom from hunger and repression has triggered in recent years a dramatic, worldwide reform of political and economic systems. Never have so many people enjoyed, or at least experimented with democratic institutions. However, many strategies for economic development in Eastern …
Constitutionalism and Democracy
Häftad, 1993
487 kr
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The eleven essays in this volume, supplemented by an editorial introduction, centre around three overlapping problems. First, why would a society want to limit its own sovereign power by imposing constitutional constraints on democratic decision-making? Second, what are the contributions of …
Interpersonal Comparisons of Well-Being
Häftad, 1993
901 kr
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In this volume a diverse group of economists, philosophers, political scientists, and psychologists address the problems, principles, and practices involved in comparing the well-being of different individuals. A series of questions lie at the heart of this investigation: What is the relevant …
Coercive Power in Social Exchange
Häftad, 1997
781 kr
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This book describes the progression and results of a decade-long program of experimental research on power in social exchange relations. Exchange theorists have traditionally excluded punishment and coercion from the scope of their analyses; but Molm examines whether exchange theory can be expanded …
Social Mechanisms
An Analytical Approach to Social Theory
Av Peter Hedström, Richard Swedberg
Inbunden, 1998
1872 kr
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The advancement of social theory requires an analytical approach that systematically seeks to explicate the social mechanisms that generate and explain observed associations between events. These essays, written by prominent social scientists, advance criticisms of current trends in social theory …
Social Mechanisms
An Analytical Approach to Social Theory
Av Peter Hedström, Richard Swedberg
Häftad, 1998
487 kr
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The advancement of social theory requires an analytical approach that systematically seeks to explicate the social mechanisms that generate and explain observed associations between events. These essays, written by prominent social scientists, advance criticisms of current trends in social theory …
Resistance and Rebellion
Lessons from Eastern Europe
Inbunden, 2001
1391 kr
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Resistance and Rebellion: Lessons from Eastern Europe explains how ordinary people become involved in resistance and rebellion against powerful regimes. The book shows how a sequence of casual forces - social norms, focal points, rational calculation - operate to drive individuals into roles of …
