The Cement of Society

Jon Elster

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Rationality and Social Change
• The question addressed in this challenging new book is: What binds societies together and prevents them from disintegrating into chaos and war? Elster... Lees meer

Explaining Technical Change

Jon Elster

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Rationality and Social Change
• Technical change, defined as the manufacture and modification of tools, is generally thought to have played an important role in the evolution of inte... Lees meer

Minority Government and Majority Rule

Kaare Strøm

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Rationality and Social Change
• Minority governments in parliamentary democracies are conventionally considered to be unstable and ineffective aberrations from the principle of major... Lees meer

Foundations of Social Choice Theory

Jon Elster, Aanund Hylland

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Rationality and Social Change
• The essays in this volume, first published in 1986, examine the philosophical foundations of social choice theory. This field, a modern and sophistica... Lees meer

Interpersonal Comparisons of Well-Being

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Rationality and Social Change
• In this volume a diverse group of economists, philosophers, political scientists, and psychologists address the problems, principles, and practices in... Lees meer

Minority Government and Majority Rule

Kaare Strøm

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Rationality and Social Change
• Minority governments in parliamentary democracies are conventionally considered to be unstable and ineffective aberrations from the principle of major... Lees meer

The Critical Mass in Collective Action

Gerald Marwell, Pamela Oliver

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Rationality and Social Change
• 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... Lees meer

The Possibility of Cooperation

Michael Taylor

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Rationality and Social Change
• 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 ot... Lees meer

Resistance and Rebellion

Roger D Petersen

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Rationality and Social Change
• Resistance and Rebellion: Lessons from Eastern Europe explains how ordinary people become involved in resistance and rebellion against powerful regime... Lees meer

Coercive Power in Social Exchange

Linda D Molm

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Rationality and Social Change
• This book describes the progression and results of a decade-long experiment on power in social exchange relations. Exchange theorists have traditional... Lees meer

Coercive Power in Social Exchange

Linda D Molm

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Rationality and Social Change
• This book describes the progression and results of a decade-long experiment on power in social exchange relations. Exchange theorists have traditional... Lees meer

The Critical Mass in Collective Action

Gerald Marwell, Pamela Oliver

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Rationality and Social Change
• 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... Lees meer

Picoeconomics

George Ainslie

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Rationality and Social Change
• 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, 'Wh... Lees meer

Resistance and Rebellion

Roger D Petersen

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Rationality and Social Change
• Resistance and Rebellion: Lessons from Eastern Europe explains how ordinary people become involved in resistance and rebellion against powerful regime... Lees meer

Social Mechanisms

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Rationality and Social Change
• The mechanism approach calls attention to an intermediary level of analysis, in between pure description and story-telling, on the one hand, and grand... Lees meer

Stratification and Organization

Arthur L Stinchcombe

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Rationality and Social Change
• The essays in this collection, on stratification, organization and the discipline of sociology, all bear upon a general theoretical question: what mod... Lees meer

Democracia Y Mercado

Adam Przeworski

• Paperback | Studies in Rationality and Social Change
• El afán de libertad del hombre y la represión han generado en los últimos años un movimiento mundial hacia la implantación de la democracia política y... Lees meer

Social Mechanisms

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Rationality and Social Change
• The mechanism approach calls attention to an intermediary level of analysis, in between pure description and story-telling, on the one hand, and grand... Lees meer

Individual Interests and Collective Action

James S Coleman

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Rationality and Social Change
• This book brings together the most important theoretical work of James S. Coleman on problems of collective action. Coleman's work has formed a consis... Lees meer

Democracy and the Market

Adam Przeworski

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Rationality and Social Change
• The quest for freedom from hunger and repression has triggered in recent years a worldwide movement toward political democracy and economic rationalit... Lees meer

The Cement of Society

Elster Jon Elster

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Rationality and Social Change
• Jon Elster delves into what binds societies together and prevents them from disintegrating into chaos and war. Lees meer

Multiple Self

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Rationality and Social Change
• 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 "mu... Lees meer

Were They Pushed or Did They Jump?

Diego Gambetta

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Rationality and Social Change
• This book explores the factors which govern the range of educational decisions confronting individuals between compulsory school education and univers... Lees meer

Constitutionalism and Democracy

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Rationality and Social Change
• The eleven essays in this volume, supplemented by an editorial introduction, center around three overlapping problems. First, why would a society want... Lees meer