One of the most promising trends in modem political science is the
develop ment of a theory of politics as rational action. Focussing
on choice as the central topic of study, rational choice theorists
set out to specify what alter native an actor should prefer if he
has some given knowledge of the conse quences of each alternative
and wants to see his preference system as fully realized as
possible. But rational choice theory is not confmed to the norma
tive sphere of science. It can also be used for explanatory
purposes. Then, the alternatives actually chosen are specified and
the task is to explain the decisions by fmding out what
considerations lay behind them. The starting point for an emerging
research program at the Department of Government, Uppsala
University, on 'Politics as Rational Action' is to describe the
major choices in fifteen different policy areas of Swedish domes
tic politics and explain why they were made."
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