Useful Fiction or Miracle Maker: The Competing Epistemological Foundations of Rational Choice Theory

By Paul K. MacDonald. American Political Science Review, 2003

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Subfields: General Decision Sciences, Political Science and International Relations

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1. Frank Lovett
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Citations in the corpus

• Rational Choice Theory and Explanation (2006, background): “Herein lies my principle disagreement with MacDonald (2003).”
• The Unmet Potential of Interdisciplinary Research: Political Psychological Approaches to Voting and Public Opinion (2009, background): “…to precise casual mechanisms, following a scientific realism approach (as opposed to an instrumentalist-empirical perspective common in rational choice theory) (e.g., Simon 1963; MacDonald 2003), but if mental processes are being improperly portrayed, then this epistemological strength is lost.”