actually, true. Bates changed his position in his later works, but I
don't know if dramatically though, to say that rational choice was
already implicit in his early works, so the outcome is not suprising. I
have to dig into pol.eco notes for this..
in any case, i agree on the basics..
Mine
>Actually I thought that in _Markets and States_ Bates treated holders
>of state power as actors constrained by politically-powerful classes,
>kind of like someone else did in _The Eighteenth Brumaire_...
>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...
>Brad DeLong
