Theory, Stylized Heuristic or Self‐Fulfilling Prophecy? The Status of Rational Choice Theory in Public Administration
By Colin Hay. 2004
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Subfields: Political Science and International Relations, Public Administration
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Citations in the corpus
- The normalizing role of rationalist assumptions in the institutional embedding of neoliberalism (2004, background): “12 On the self-fulfilling nature of rationalist assumptions more generally, see Hay (2004b).”
- Choice is yours: A psychodynamic exploration of health policymaking and its consequences for the English National Health Service (2006, background): “…partly by theoretical paradigms they have internalized as part of their mindsets after being ‘thoroughly immersed in neo-classical economics since their undergraduate days’ (Hay, 2004: 42), and partly by the unconscious enactment of the Zeitgeist, giving voice to collective desires and aspirations.”