This provocative book takes up and develops the themes of rationality and irrationality in Jon Elster's earlier work. Its purposes are threefold. First, Elster shows how belief and preference formation in the realm of politics are shaped by social and political institutions. Second, he argues for an important distinction in the social sciences between mechanisms and theories. Third, he illustrates those general principles of political psychology through readings of three outstanding political psychologists: the French classical historian, Paul Veyne; the Soviet dissident writer, Alexander Zinoviev; the great French political theorist, Alexis de Tocqueville.
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"As always, Elster has produced an analysis that is conspicuous for its elegance....Seldom can Tocqueville have been put through such a rigorous intellectual mincer." Rudolf Klein, Times Literary Supplement
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The text reveals how belief and preference formation are shaped by social and political institutions; argues for an important distinction between mechanisms and theories in the social sciences; illustrates principles of political psychology through authoritative readings.
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I first read Paul Veyne's Le Pain et le cirque a summer on the Cote d'Azur when, along with Nice Matin, it was my only intellectual nourishment for a month. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
external negation, internal negation, decoding principle, character planning, adaptive preferences, compensation effect Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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I first read Paul Veyne's Le Pain et le cirque a summer on the Cote d'Azur when, along with Nice Matin, it was my only intellectual nourishment for a month. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
external negation, internal negation, decoding principle, character planning, adaptive preferences, compensation effect Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, Yawning Heights, Writing History New!
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- Democracy in America (Signet Classics) by Alexis de Tocqueville on 20 pages
- Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville on 20 pages
- Writing History: Essay on Epistemology by Paul Veyne on page 2, and page 4
- The Phenomenology of Mind (Philosophical Classics) by Georg W. F. Hegel on page 79
- Personality and Assessment by Walter Mischel in Back Matter
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- De Tocqueville (Founders of Modern Political and Social Thought) by Cheryl Welch on 7 pages
- Tocqueville's Political and Moral Thought: New Liberalism (Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought) by M. R. R. Ossewaarde in Front Matter, page 49, and Back Matter
- Individual Choice and the Structures of History: Alexis de Tocqueville as Historian Reappraised by Harvey Mitchell on page 4, page 258, and Back Matter
- The Cambridge Companion to Tocqueville (Cambridge Companions to Philosophy) by Cheryl B. Welch in Front Matter (1), Front Matter (2), and Back Matter
- Thinking about Political Psychology (Cambridge Studies in Public Opinion and Political Psychology) by James H. Kuklinski on page 108, and page 111
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