Rule systems theory. Applications and explorations.

Sonst. Personen	Flam, Helena (Hrsg.); Carson, Marcus (Hrsg.); Burns, Tom R. (gefeierte Person)
Titel	Rule systems theory. Applications and explorations. Gefälligkeitsübersetzung: Regelsystemtheorie. Anwendungen und Forschungen.
Quelle	Frankfurt, Main: P. Lang (2008), 316 S.Verfügbarkeit
Beigaben	Tabellen
Zusatzinformation	Inhaltsverzeichnis
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; Monographie
ISBN	978-3-631-57596-3
Schlagwörter	Kultur; Soziale Institution; Corporate Identity; Kognitive Dissonanz; AIDS (Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome); Steuerung; Systemtheorie; Politisches System; Wahlverhalten; Zivilgesellschaft; Institutionenökonomie; Politikwissenschaft; Soziologie; Wirtschaftswissenschaft; Festschrift; Theorie; Europäische Union; Jugoslawien; USA
Abstract	"Explaining the complexity of social life remains the central challenge of the social sciences. This book offers a variety of theoretical-empirical explorations and applications inspired by an important neo-institutional approach to tackling this complexity - the rule systems theory. Its point of departure is the assumption that institutions and cultural formations possess causal powers and relative autonomy, constraining and enabling people's social actions and interactions. Structural and cultural properties of society are carried by, transmitted, and reformed by human agents whose interactions generate, reproduce, elaborate and transform structures. The contributors are highly accomplished economists, sociologists and political scientists who come from the US and several European countries. The book is meant as a Festschrift for Tom Burns, a central figure in the development of the rule systems theory." (author's abstract). Contents: Nina Witoszek: Comrade Don Quixote (15-18); Andreas Balog: Explaining action and explaining social phenomena (19-38); Rogers Hollingsworth, Karl H. Müller, Ellen Jane Hollingsworth, David M. Gear: Socio-economics and a new scientific paradigm (39-56); Tom R. Burns: Rule system theory: an overview (57-84); Ewa Roszkowska: Negotiation in the context of generalized game theory (85-102); Anna Gomolinska: Rough rule-following by social agents (103-118); Hannu Nurmi: On the art of being usefully wrong: lessons from voting paradoxes (119-130); Nora Machado: The stabilization of social order: social cognitive dissonance theory applied to hospitals and clinics (131-150); Beth Maina Ahlberg: Dare we dream of a future without Aids? Challenges and opportunities for responsive social science research (151-170); Marcus Carson: Of mind and matter: policy paradigms and institutional design (171-190); Atle Midttun: Corporate (social) responsibility as an area for partnered governance: from the business to the public policy case (191-210); Svein S. Andersen: The institutionalization of a meta-order: negotiating the energy charter treaty (211-228); Hans L. Zetterberg: Opinion polling on international political accords (229-242); Alberto Martinelli: The political systems of the United States and the European Union (243-262); Helena Flam: Germany and migration - a European case (263-284); Dusko Sekulic: Social rule system theory and the disintegration of Yugoslavia (285-298); Christian Arnsperger, Philippe De Villé: Could 'homo oeconomicus' become a revolutionary? Probing the irrevelance of standard economics (299-316).
Erfasst von	GESIS - Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften, Mannheim
Update	2010/1