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Critical Review
A Journal of Politics and Society
Volume 9, 1995 - Issue 1-2: RATIONAL CHOICE THEORY AND POLITICS
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Symposium on Pathologies of Rational Choice Theory

Rational choice, empirical contributions, and the scientific enterprise

Pages 85-94 | Published online: 06 Mar 2008
 

Abstract

Don Green and Ian Shapiro's Pathologies of Rational Choice Theory, despite the impressive amount of work that has gone into it, is undercut by a number of serious misunderstandings of the use of the rational choice approach by students of American politics. Furthermore, Green and Shapiro adopt an extremely pinched notion of an empirical contribution and an outmoded and idealized view of the scientific method. If their standards were adopted, it would be difficult to allow that anyone in political science has made an empirical contribution, or that political science is a scientific enterprise.

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