Rat choice

[Jim Devine]

>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 is one of the major theoretical tools that 
sharpens rather than obscures economic thinking, right?

Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] & http://liberalarts.lmu.edu/~JDevine