Explaining Social Behavior Paperback: More Nuts and Bolts for the Social Sciences - Softcover

Elster

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0521777445 ISBN 13: 9780521777445

Verlag: Cambridge University Press, 2007

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An expanded and revised edition of the author's critically acclaimed volume Nuts and Bolts for the Social Sciences. In twenty-six succinct chapters, Elster provides an account of the nature of explanation in the social sciences, offering an overview of key explanatory mechanisms in the social sciences with hundreds of examples.

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Jon Elster is Professor and Chaire de Rationalite et Sciences Sociales at the College de France. A fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy, he is a recipient of fellowships from The John Simon Guggenheim Foundation and the Russell Sage Foundation, among many others. Dr Elster has taught at the University of Chicago and Columbia University and has held visiting professorships at many universities in the United States and in Europe. He is the author and editor of thirty-four books, most recently Closing the Books: Transitional Justice in Historical Perspective, Elementary Social Science from an Advanced Standpoint, and Retribution and Restitution in the Transition to Democracy.

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• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2007
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0521777445
• ISBN 13: 9780521777445
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 496
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
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