“Rational choice has come quite a way,” a Stanford University professor, Barry Weingast, said. “Thirty years ago, it was far outside the mainstream in political science in almost every respect.” Mr.

Journal of Political & Military Sociology, Vol. 21, No. 2 (Winter 1993), pp. 135-162 (28 pages) Recent political-economic shifts in Eastern bloc countries and theoretical shifts in American social ...

Choice theory provides a fundamental framework for understanding how individuals and groups make decisions, integrating elements of economics, psychology, and sociology. This interdisciplinary field ...