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Intra-Party Conflict and Coalitional Behaviour in Denmark and Norway: The Case of 'Highly Institutionalized' Parties
Intra-Party Conflict and Coalitional Behaviour in Denmark and Norway: The Case of ?Highly Institutionalized? Parties
The policy impact of party programmes and government declarations in the Federal Republic of Germany
Rational Choice and the Policy Sciences
This article discusses the possibility of applying deductively based rational choice theories as analytical tools for understanding complex policy problems. It surveys the basic assumptions, axioms and rules of interpretation on which the theory is constructed and some of its important findings. Two of its more interesting results, that of the "paradox of voting" and of the "prisoner's dilemma," are presented and applied herein. Copyright 1992 by The Policy Studies Organization.