Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Acknowledgments v
3. Contents vii
4. Contributors ix
5. Introduction: Rational Choice Social Research 1
6. Part I: Rationality and Decision-making
7. 1. Rationality, Social Preferences, and Strategic Decision-making from a Behavioral Economics Perspective 33
8. 2. Social Rationality, Self-Regulation, and Well-Being: The Regulatory Significance of Needs, Goals, and the Self 72
9. 3. Rational Choice Research on Social Dilemmas: Embeddedness Effects on Trust 113
10. 4. Modeling Collective Decision-making 151
11. Part II: Networks and Inequality
12. 5. Social Exchange, Power, and Inequality in Networks 185
13. 6. Social Capital 220
14. 7. Network Dynamics 252
15. Part III: Communities and Cohesion
16. 8. Rational Choice Research in Criminology: A Multi-Level Framework 283
17. 9. Secularization: Theoretical Controversies Generating Empirical Research 322
18. 10. Assimilation as Rational Action in Contexts Defined by Institutions and Boundaries 355
19. Part IV: States and Conflicts
20. 11. Terrorism and the State 381
21. 12. Choosing War: State Decisions to Initiate and End Wars and Observe the Peace Afterward 411
22. 13. Rational Choice Approaches to State-Making 443
23. Part V: Markets and Organizations
24. 14. Market Design and Market Failure 473
25. 15. Organizational Governance 513
26. 16. Rational Choice and Organizational Change 556
27. Index 589