Monroe (2001) Paradigm Shift: From Rational Choice to Perspective.
Monroe (2001) is sympathetic to rational choice is a paradigm that is slowly breaking down. BUt if you want a new theory the new theory has to do everything the pld theory did.
Perspective as a theory draws on political psychology and focuses on identity; it shifts from a focus on the preferences to a focus on the individual (163 is a good explanation). this will "encourage analysts to seek to undertsand how external stimuli shift our perceptions of ourselves in relation to others" (160). "Our perceptions of ourselves in relation to others efficiently delineates and sets the domain of notions we find available, not just morally but empirically. THis effectively makes choice a function of identitiy and, more particularly, our self-perceptions" (157).
Group membership (psychology) may lead individuals to make irrational choices.
...as it pertains to political outcomes:
the idea that emotion and human cognition have an impact on political action. Thus, understanding identity is very important to understanding what i do, and the choices i make. Rational choice should not be abandoned, of course. at times, actoris will presond as a self-interested individual; but at other times, when the actor conceives of himself as a part of a collective they will act differently, perhaps (160).
Key Rational Choice Assumptions
1.) actors pursue goals
2.) these goals reflect the actors' percieved self interest
3.) behavior results from a process that actually involves conscious choice (153). 4.) the individual is the basic actor 5.) actors have pref ordings that are constistand and stable 6.) if given options, actors chooce the alt. with the highest expected utility 7.) actors process extensive info on both the available alts and the likely consequences of their choices.
General critique of rat choice:
-ignores limits on freedom to choose evident in some cultures (155)
-the claim that human nature is static
-Western, individualistic bias
-what of altruistic political behavior (green and shapiro 1994; monroe 1996)
Perspective as a theory draws on political psychology and focuses on identity; it shifts from a focus on the preferences to a focus on the individual (163 is a good explanation). this will "encourage analysts to seek to undertsand how external stimuli shift our perceptions of ourselves in relation to others" (160). "Our perceptions of ourselves in relation to others efficiently delineates and sets the domain of notions we find available, not just morally but empirically. THis effectively makes choice a function of identitiy and, more particularly, our self-perceptions" (157).
Group membership (psychology) may lead individuals to make irrational choices.
...as it pertains to political outcomes:
the idea that emotion and human cognition have an impact on political action. Thus, understanding identity is very important to understanding what i do, and the choices i make. Rational choice should not be abandoned, of course. at times, actoris will presond as a self-interested individual; but at other times, when the actor conceives of himself as a part of a collective they will act differently, perhaps (160).
Key Rational Choice Assumptions
1.) actors pursue goals
2.) these goals reflect the actors' percieved self interest
3.) behavior results from a process that actually involves conscious choice (153). 4.) the individual is the basic actor 5.) actors have pref ordings that are constistand and stable 6.) if given options, actors chooce the alt. with the highest expected utility 7.) actors process extensive info on both the available alts and the likely consequences of their choices.
General critique of rat choice:
-ignores limits on freedom to choose evident in some cultures (155)
-the claim that human nature is static
-Western, individualistic bias
-what of altruistic political behavior (green and shapiro 1994; monroe 1996)
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