But I agree that more recently Bates's insights have seemed to me to be
more obscured than sharpened by the "rational choice" methodology in
political science...
how does the "rat choice" method of PoliSci differ from that of economics?
supposedly, rat choice logic
ctims simply succumbed to the definition of the
situation imposed by the nazis and duly played their victims roles (cf.
Richard Rubinstein, _The Cunning of History_ ). I sincerely doubt that any
rat-choice calculation, e.g. "compliance will prolong my life by a few
minutes" took place. I am
n marriage than in a "spot" sex-for-money transaction.
Of course, that is not limited to marriage. By their very nature, social
institutions impose opportunity cost on certain actions which does not
exist from a rat-choice perspective (assuming no relationship among actors
other
