choice theorist
collocation in Englishmeaningsofchoiceandtheorist
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choice
noun
uk/tʃɔɪs/us/tʃɔɪs/
an act or the possibility ...
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theorist
noun[C]
uk/ˈθɪə.rɪst/us/ˈθiː.ɚ.ɪst/
someone who develops ideas about the explanation ...
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(Definition ofchoiceandtheoristfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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The socialchoicetheoristhas nothing to bring to the table except to observe that the trade-off is ineradicable.
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However, unless we can isolate major benefits associated with representation, the rationalchoicetheoristwould seem to be committed to direct democracy.
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Through trial and error in model development, the interpretation of model agents helps the rationalchoicetheoristgain some intuitive grasp over what real agents might actually be doing.
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This third response is the most common among rational choice theorists.
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Now, beside this, currently predominant, formal notion of problemsolving, there is another one, which makes the normative discussion a very substantial part of the social choice theorist's activity.
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A worry about agenda manipulation of the cloning type is just one reason why many social choice theorists have insisted on independence of irrelevant alternatives.
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This is something that rational choice theorists often neglect, in their desire to attain rigorous and, hence, parsimonious explanation.
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The early work of public choice theorists challenged the notion that order in the public sector stemmed only from central direction.
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To most rational choice theorists, the world is not socially constructed; rather there is a 'real' world which is external to, and exists independently of, agents.
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Thus, findings from these experiments challenged the core assumptions of microeconomics as well as those of public choice and rational choice theorists in political science.
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Rational choice theorists in sociology assume that people enforce norms and bargain with others to optimize their social fortune.
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Public choice theorists see this as a particularly pernicious effect of bureaucratic structures, emphasising that it leads to excessive government spending and inefficient allocation of public resources.
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A second inference that we draw from our analysis is that larger government does not seem to generate higher levels of corruption as posited by public choice theorists.
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If rational choice theorists rarely acknowledge the importance of structural constraints on action, they have even more problems dealing with the way in which culture shapes preferences.
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But while rational choice theorists use a micro-level deductive theory to approach the cases, this study uses a macro-level theory based on social structures instead.
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And let us grant the choice theorist's assumption against determinists that incapacity in this sense intelligibly distinguishes the blameless from the possibly blameworthy.
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Rational choice theorists resist large-grain macro explanations but do not insist on replacing them by particular grain accounts.
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To social choice theorists, the democratic problem involves aggregation of views, interests or preferences across individuals, not deliberation over their content.
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Despite its empirical importance, taking it in turns has received virtually no attention from rational choice theorists.
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