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Showing 1 to 20 of 128 for “"rational choice"”.
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A rational choice framework for collective behavior
… general collective intelligence in the form of "rational group agency" arises from three conditions: aligned utilities, accurate shared beliefs, and coordinated actions. However, achieving these conditions can be difficult, as evidenced by impossibility results related to each condition from the …
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The Supreme Court and labor policy: A rational choice perspective
… operates. This model assumes that the Court is a rational political actor which maximizes its utility by strategically selecting public policy outcomes. Data collected from Supreme Court labor relations opinions was used to empirically test the model. In general, the findings support the notion …
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Voicing women's resistance within religious studies: An interrogation of rational choice theory
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The effect of rational choice and anti-intellectualism on students' intention to cheat.
This study investigated the effect of rational choice and anti-intellectualism on undergraduate business students' (N = 485) intention to cheat in their academic studies. A descriptive research design was used and data was collected by means of a self-administered, cross-sectional survey. …
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Behavioral scripts of urban park offenders: a rational choice perspective on influences of the park setting
… Using the theoretical bases of opportunity, rational choice, and scripts, behavior of study offenders in 6 U.S. Park Service reservations in Washington, DC was interpreted. A case study strategy was chosen, utilizing participant observation, direct observation, archival records, physical …
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Corruption as a rational choice: The case of the first post-independence government of Ghana: 1951-1966
Nearly half a century into the post-independence history of Sub-Saharan Africa, the continent continues to wallow in poverty, underdevelopment and misery. Many wonder why the vast natural resources the continent is endowed with have not been tapped to turn the fortunes of the respective countries …
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Decision Making and the Adoption Process for American Families of Chinese Children: An Application of Rational Choice Theory
… adoption and the process in relation to rational choice theory. The interviews also inquired about their required adoption trip to China and the post-adoption adjustment phase including bonding and developmental delays, as well as about why families chose to adopt from China, how they …
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Media - government interactions and foreign policy : a rational choice approach to the media's impact on political decision-making and the paradigm of the Greek - Turkish conflict
… and is here explored with the employment of rational choice and game theory. The thesis develops a game - theoretic model, which identifies the media as a purposeful actor rather than a mere instrument in the hands of politicians; and provides a rigorous interpretation of the media - …
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A Juxtaposition of rational choice and socio-cultural approaches to explain changes in family size throughout the process of economic development using household survey data from Brazil
… to explain fertility in developing countries. Rational choice approaches, in the spirit of Gary S. Becker, are presented alongside approaches that account for heterogeneous socio-cultural traits to see which method explains more about family size in Brazil. The paper finds evidence to support …
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Fighting for frames or prospects for peace? : building a prospect theory model of ethnic civil war termination
… table or on the battlefield. Rooted in the rational choice paradigm, these models draw upon utility calculations and security concerns to describe ethnic combatants' decision processes and explain the low rate of ethnic war settlement. Two problems with these rational choice models, however, …
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Statistical methods for forecasting and estimating passenger willingness-to-pay in airline revenue management
… new regression-based forecasting method known as Rational Choice. Rational Choice Forecasting creates passenger type categories based on potential willingness-to-pay levels and the lowest open fare class. Using this information, sell-up is accounted for within the passenger type categories, making …
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Estimating the Adaptation Deficit - An empirical analysis of the constraints on climate change adaptation in agriculture
… rests on the neoclassical economic assumption of rational choice among farmers. A wealth of experimental and empirical evidence demonstrates that rational choice can be a poor approximation of human decision making. Models simulating adaptation by optimising producers’ behaviour are in effect …
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Europäische Sicherheitspolitik am Bosporus : Perspektiven europäischer Sicherheit bei einem EU-Beitritt oder bei einer privilegierten Partnerschaft der Türkei
… Staatsgrenzen analysiert. Auf Basis der Rational Choice Theorie vom Akteurzentrierten Institutionalismus wird gezeigt mit welchen Herausforderungen die Europäische Union konfrontiert wäre und die Frage behandelt, ob eine so genannte Privilegierte Partnerschaft eine mögliche Alternative zu …
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Modelling, Simulation and Analysis of Deshopping Using A Multi-Agent Based Method
… is first of its kind in an effort to bring rational choice modelling, shop choice, return leniency, opinion dynamics and churn using agent-based modelling and MoHuB framework into focus. It also combines questionnaire survey, ABM modelling and validation interview. The thesis focuses on the …
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Anabolic steroid use among non-competitive male bodybuilders: an application of two theories of deviant behavior
… of deviant behavior are used in this research: rational choice theory and social learning theory. This thesis tests these theories on a sample of 50 males from fitness centers and gymnasiums. The results are interpreted in light of their implications for future research on the factors that …
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Attributions of inferential error, epistemic virtues, and models of minimal rationality
… a more desirable, empirically accurate, model of rationality must reject certain well-entrenched assumptions about the connection between logic and good reasoning. I argue following Cherniak, that models of rationality must use desire fulfillment, and not just logic or probability theory as the …
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Testing Models of Voter Choice: The Case of Polish Parliamentary Elections, 1997-2005
… performed in the framework of behavioralism and rational choice. Under these two broad academic schools of thought various theories of voting behavior have been developed over last 50 years. I demonstrate the main theoretical elements of sociological, socio-psychological, economic, and …
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The institutional effects of the Scottish Parliament upon organised interests.
… groups, although one of the three approaches - rational choice, sociological and historical institutionalism “ is more applicable than the other two in certain circumstances. Sociological institutionalism is the most applicable new institutionalist approach in explaining behaviour during the …
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Al Shabaab as a transnational actor : a critical theoretical analysis
… of transnational terror, a critical analysis of Rational Choice Theory, Spill-over Conflict Theory and Regional War Complex Theory was conducted. Evaluating each theory according to whether its assumptions held true, the theory offered a parsimonious explanation of Al Shabaab's use of …
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