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Analyzing Actors' Choices
- Source :
- International Political Science Review. 11:87-97
- Publication Year :
- 1990
- Publisher :
- SAGE Publications, 1990.
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Abstract
- Critical examination of the concept of actor shows, first, that actors' choices are an important part of the explanation of their actions (but those choices are not reducible to the rationality of the actors concerned or to effects of their structural location) and, second, that there are actors whose concerns and objectives are not reducible to those of human individuals (but classes are not among them). These arguments undermine analyses of politics in terms of the actions or interests of classes and the attempts of rational choice theory to analyze politics in terms of a methodological individualism.
- Subjects :
- 021110 strategic, defence & security studies
Sociology and Political Science
05 social sciences
0211 other engineering and technologies
Rational choice theory
Rationality
02 engineering and technology
Critical examination
0506 political science
Politics
Political Science and International Relations
050602 political science & public administration
Economics
Positive economics
Methodological individualism
Social psychology
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 1460373X and 01925121
- Volume :
- 11
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- International Political Science Review
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi...........f844b8c307493ba25f0aeda93a164b58