foundations and problems of positive political metatheory

Rationality and the Foundations of Positive Political Theory

In this paper, we discuss and debunk the four most common critiques of the rational choice research program (which we prefer to call Positive Political Theory) by explaining and advocating its foundations: the rationality assumption, component analysis (abstraction), strategic behavior, and theory building, in turn. We argue that the rationality assumption and component analysis, properly under...

Foundations of Political Economies

critical naturalism and socio-political metatheory

socio-political metatheories based on ontological and epistemological foundations, could be devided to different objectivist and subjectivist fronts. according to such a devide, different interpretation of individual-society and agent-structure could be renderd. in contrast,critical metatheories that seek to transcend the contradiction between objectivity-subjectivity in the individual-society ...

Theoretical Foundations of Political Economy

problems and strategies of translating persian lexical collocations into english: the case of noun-verb and noun-adjective collocations

در محیط های دانشگاهی ایران ، آموزش ترجمه واژگان هم آیند که به منزله امری لاینفک برای دانش جویان رشته مترجمی زبان می باشد، تا حدود زیادی نادیده گرفته شده است . این واقعیت باعث شده است تا دانش جویان رشته مترجمی زبان در ترجمه ی واژگان هم آیند اشتباهات بسیاری مرتکب شوند. این پژوهش توجه ویژه ای به ترجمه واژگان هم آیند داشته است. برای مشخص نمودن مشکلات و استراتژی های مورد استفاده ی دانش جویان در ترجم...

Expressive Political Behaviour : Foundations , Scope and Implications

A growing literature has focussed attention on ‘expressive’ rather than ‘instrumental’ behaviour in political settings, particularly voting. A common criticism of the expressive idea is that it is rather ad hoc and lacking in both predictive and normative bite. We agree that no clear definition of expressive behaviour has gained wide acceptence to date, and no detailed understanding of the rang...