satisficing behavior
optimal decision making
political business cycles
game theory
bounded rationality
public choice theory
cost-benefit analysis
governance failure
market failure
prisoner's dilemma
rationality
public good
externalities
theory (victimology and crime prevention)
state capture
rationalization
bureau shaping
rent seeking
new public management
revealed preference
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]
impossibility theorem
collective action
social choice
equilibrium theory
positive political theory
Pareto optimality
free riding
overload
decision making
Rational Choice Theory
theories
methods