Pareto optimality
type: Concept
broader: Rational Choice Theory

Rational Choice Theory
type: Concept
broader: theory (victimology and crime prevention)
broader: decision making
definition: Rational choice theory is an umbrella term for a variety of models explaining social phenomena as outcomes of individual action that can in some way be construed as rational. “Rational behavior” is behavior that is suitable for the realization of specific goals, given the limitations imposed by the situation. [Source: Theory in Social and Cultural Anthropology: An Encyclopedia; Rational Choice Theory]
narrower: prisoner's dilemma
narrower: optimal decision making
narrower: new public management
narrower: impossibility theorem
narrower: collective action
narrower: bounded rationality
narrower: social choice
narrower: satisficing behavior
narrower: rationalization
narrower: externalities
narrower: market failure
narrower: revealed preference
narrower: public choice theory
narrower: equilibrium theory
narrower: public good
narrower: rationality
narrower: positive political theory
narrower: rent seeking
narrower: governance failure
narrower: political business cycles
narrower: state capture
narrower: Pareto optimality
narrower: free riding
narrower: overload
narrower: bureau shaping
related: game theory
related: cost-benefit analysis

bounded rationality
type: Concept
broader: Rational Choice Theory

bureau shaping
type: Concept
broader: Rational Choice Theory

collective action
type: Concept
broader: Rational Choice Theory

methods
type: Collection
type: ConceptGroup
member: Rational Choice Theory

theories
type: Collection
type: ConceptGroup
member: Rational Choice Theory

cost-benefit analysis
type: Concept
related: Rational Choice Theory

decision making
type: Concept
narrower: Rational Choice Theory

equilibrium theory
type: Concept
broader: Rational Choice Theory

externalities
type: Concept
broader: Rational Choice Theory

free riding
type: Concept
broader: Rational Choice Theory

game theory
type: Concept
related: Rational Choice Theory

governance failure
type: Concept
broader: Rational Choice Theory

impossibility theorem
type: Concept
broader: Rational Choice Theory

market failure
type: Concept
broader: Rational Choice Theory

new public management
type: Concept
broader: Rational Choice Theory

optimal decision making
type: Concept
broader: Rational Choice Theory

overload
type: Concept
broader: Rational Choice Theory

political business cycles
type: Concept
broader: Rational Choice Theory

positive political theory
type: Concept
broader: Rational Choice Theory

prisoner's dilemma
type: Concept
broader: Rational Choice Theory

public choice theory
type: Concept
broader: Rational Choice Theory

public good
type: Concept
broader: Rational Choice Theory

rationality
type: Concept
broader: Rational Choice Theory

rationalization
type: Concept
broader: Rational Choice Theory

rent seeking
type: Concept
broader: Rational Choice Theory

revealed preference
type: Concept
broader: Rational Choice Theory

satisficing behavior
type: Concept
broader: Rational Choice Theory

social choice
type: Concept
broader: Rational Choice Theory

state capture
type: Concept
broader: Rational Choice Theory

theory (victimology and crime prevention)
type: Concept
narrower: Rational Choice Theory