rational actor
collocation in Englishmeaningsofrationalandactor
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rational
adjective
uk/ˈræʃ.ən.əl/us/ˈræʃ.ən.əl/
based on clear thought ...
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actor
noun[C]
uk/ˈæk.tər/us/ˈæk.tɚ/
someone who pretends to be someone else while performing in a film, play, or television or ...
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(Definition ofrationalandactorfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Furthermore, there are drawbacks to therationalactormodel.
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And the justifications we shall entertain, and the analytic perspective we shall adopt, will be drawn from the tradition ofrationalactorpolitical theory.
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The picture of political process that springs from the idea of expressive voting is very different from that associated with more orthodoxrationalactormodels.
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At a more micro level of analysis,rationalactorapproaches ground the analysis in the motivations facing state actors at the central and local level.
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According to therationalactormodel in economics, people are solely motivated by self-interest.
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Rationalactorpolitical theory often assumes representation in order to focus on problems of a principal-agent kind, but offers only relatively weak arguments for representation.
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The causal argument linking liberalisation with decentralisation may depend either on an ideational explanation of change or on arationalactor-based explanation.
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The factors which can link therationalactormodel analyses and the domestic politic factors are public opinion and the media which influence it.
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What is important, on therationalactoraccount, is that politicians face incentives to obtain appropriate advice, and to act appropriately on that advice.
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The orthodoxrationalactortheoretic response to this intuitive claim would be in three parts.
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But while these methodological strictures might be appropriate within some branches ofrationalactor theory, they seem wholly inappropriate in any reconciliation project.
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Even if therationalactoris cheated in later rounds, he/she has still done better than if he/she had never cooperated.
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Because individuals do not behave according to therationalactormodel, however, any notion that they 'deserve ' the pension outcome they receive is weakened.
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That assumption can, and in our view should, be relaxed while staying within the generalrationalactortradition.
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The (methodological) claim that structural explanations are more efficient is compatible with the (ontological) claim that the causal claims that are used in them often ' 'presuppose' ' arationalactorstory.
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Other scholars prefer to stick to therationalactorparadigm, and argue that pragmatic muddling through is what is needed to move from economic insights to the world.
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A well-established critique of therationalactormodel is that constraints of time, imperfect knowledge and imperfect ability bound rationality and thus the ability to choose.
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