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The 60 pages that link to Rational choice model, each with the reason it gives.

• Albert O. HirschmanCompared with: His accounts gave greater weight to changing preferences, uncertainty, and unintended consequences.

• George C. HomansRelated: Its later sociological forms share Homans’s focus on individual action but often emphasize calculated choice.

• Maurice AllaisRelated: His paradox challenged the claim that observed choices always follow a standard formal account of rationality.

• Political psychologyCompared with: It emphasizes calculated incentives where political psychology also examines emotion, identity, and bias.

• Social practiceCompared with: It contrasts with explanations centered on embodied know-how and routines rather than calculated decisions.

• Garbage can modelCompared with: Unlike rational choice, the model allows solutions and problems to meet without deliberate matching.

• James Samuel ColemanNarrower topic: Coleman developed a sociological account of how purposeful individual action produces collective outcomes.

• Consumer behaviourCompared with: It offers a clean benchmark against which observed consumer decisions are compared.

• History of political scienceRelated: Its formal models offered a distinct route to general explanations of political behavior.

• Robert D. PutnamCompared with: It offers an individual-level account that contrasts with Putnam’s emphasis on civic networks and norms.