Jon Elster
Norwegian academic
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- PhD Social Sciences Université Paris Cité
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Jon Elster is a Norwegian philosopher and political theorist who holds the Robert K. Merton professorship of Social Science at Columbia University. He received his PhD in social science from the École Normale Superieure in 1972. He has previously taught at the University of Paris, the University of Oslo, and the University of Chicago, where he became professor of political science in 1984. Since 1995, he has held the Robert K. Merton professorship of Social Science at Columbia University, as well as being professor of social science at the Collège de France since 2005.
Jon Elster's Published Works
Published Works
- The cement of society : a study of social order (1989) (1597)
- Sour Grapes: Studies in the Subversion of Rationality (1985) (1234)
- Emotions and Economic Theory (1998) (1145)
- Nuts and bolts for the social sciences (1989) (926)
- Ulysses and the Sirens: Studies in Rationality and Irrationality (1985) (916)
- Making Sense of Marx (1986) (911)
- Social Norms and Economic Theory (1989) (862)
- The Cement Of Society (1991) (815)
- Explaining Social Behavior: More Nuts and Bolts for the Social Sciences (2007) (765)
- Ulysses And The Sirens (1979) (746)
- Choice Over Time (1992) (565)
- ALCHEMIES OF THE MIND: RATIONALITY AND THE EMOTIONS (1998) (520)
- Closing the Books: Transitional Justice in Historical Perspective (2004) (510)
- THE MARKET AND THE FORUM : Three varieties of political theory (2005) (493)
- Social Mechanisms: A plea for mechanisms (1998) (354)
- Rationality and the Emotions (1996) (345)
- Ulysses Unbound: Studies in Rationality, Precommitment, and Constraints (2000) (344)
- Explaining Technical Change (1983) (338)
- Deliberative Democracy: Deliberation and Constitution Making (1998) (320)
- Explaining technical change : a case study in the philosophy of science (1985) (311)
- The Multiple Self (1987) (301)
- Local Justice: How Institutions Allocate Scarce Goods and Necessary Burdens (1992) (275)
- Institutional Design in Post-Communist Societies: Rebuilding the Ship at Sea (1998) (275)
- Constitutionalism and Democracy: Notes on contributors (1988) (268)
- Utilitarianism and beyond: Sour grapes – utilitarianism and the genesis of wants (1982) (268)
- Foundations of Social Choice Theory (1986) (248)
- Forces and Mechanisms in the Constitution-Making Process (1995) (234)
- Norms of Revenge (1990) (231)
- Utility from memory and anticipation. (1992) (231)
- Closing the Books: Frontmatter (2004) (227)
- Strong Feelings: Emotion, Addiction, and Human Behavior (1999) (226)
- Solomonic Judgements: Studies in the Limitations of Rationality (1989) (225)
- Alchemies of the mind (1998) (220)
- Rational Choice History: A Case of Excessive Ambition (2000) (217)
- Interpersonal Comparisons of Well-Being (1991) (214)
- Logic and society : contradictions and possible worlds (1980) (191)
- Deliberative Democracy: Introduction (1998) (189)
- Constitution-making in Eastern Europe: Rebuilding the boat in the open sea (1993) (183)
- Weakness of Will and the Free-Rider Problem (1985) (149)
- Deliberative Democracy: Contents (1998) (147)
- Logic And Society (1978) (140)
- Institutional Design in Post-Communist Societies (1998) (135)
- Arguing and Bargaining in Two Constitutuent Assemblies (2000) (128)
- Rationality, Morality, and Collective Action (1985) (120)
- THE AGRARIAN ROOTS OF EUROPEAN CAPITALISM* (2008) (111)
- The Impact of Constitutions on Economic Performance (1994) (109)
- The market and the forum (1986) (104)
- Coming to terms with the past. A framework for the study of justice in the transition to democracy (1998) (97)
- Collective Wisdom: Principles and Mechanisms (2012) (96)
- Subversion der Rationalität (1987) (95)
- An Introduction to Karl Marx (1986) (93)
- The roundtable talks and the breakdown of communism (1996) (91)
- Ulysses and the Sirens: A theory of imperfect rationality (1977) (91)
- Self-Realization in Work and Politics: The Marxist Conception of the Good Life (1986) (90)
- Addiction : entries and exits (1999) (86)
- Political Psychology: Contents (1993) (86)
- Getting Hooked: Rationality and Addiction (2007) (83)
- Rationality and social norms (1991) (83)
- Karl Marx: A Reader (1986) (82)
- Armed conflict and post-conflict justice, 1946–2006 (2012) (74)
- Local justice (1990) (68)
- The Empirical Study of Justice (1995) (66)
- Motivations and Beliefs in Suicide Missions (2005) (66)
- The possibility of rational politics (1986) (62)
- Alexis de Tocqueville, the First Social Scientist (2009) (62)
- Rationality, emotions, and social norms (2005) (61)
- The Nature and Scope of Rational-Choice Explanation (1988) (61)
- The Ancien Régime and the French Revolution (2008) (60)
- BELIEF, BIAS AND IDEOLOGY (1983) (57)
- Constitutionalism in Eastern Europe: An Introduction (1991) (54)
- Some Unresolved Problems in the Theory of Rational Behavior (1993) (51)
- Postcommunist Democracy: Legacies and Outcomes@@@Institutional Design in Post-Communist Societies: Rebuilding the Ship at Sea@@@Post-Communist Party Systems: Competition, Representation, and Inter-Party Cooperation@@@Rebellious Civil Society: Popular Protest and Democratic Consolidation in Poland, 1 (2003) (51)
- Rationality, economy, and society (2000) (51)
- Constitutionalism and Democracy (1990) (49)
- From Here to There; or, If Cooperative Ownership Is So Desirable, Why are There So Few Cooperatives? (1989) (48)
- Solomonic Judgments: Against the Best Interest of the Child (1987) (46)
- Reason and Rationality (2009) (46)
- A note on hysteresis in the social sciences (1976) (44)
- Transition, constitution-making and separation in Czechoslovakia (1995) (44)
- Cohen on Marx's Theory of History (1980) (43)
- Postcommunist Democracy Legacies and Outcomes (2008) (43)
- Fairness and Norms (2014) (42)
- Excessive Ambitions (2009) (41)
- Selfishness and Altruism (1989) (41)
- Strategic Uses of Argument (2017) (38)
- Democracy, Accountability, and Representation: Accountability in Athenian Politics (1999) (35)
- More than Enough (1997) (34)
- Democracy's victory and crisis: Ways of constitution-making (1997) (33)
- Excessive Ambitions (II) (2013) (33)
- Altruistic Behavior and Altruistic Motivations (2006) (33)
- Local Justice in America (1995) (31)
- Collective Wisdom: The Optimal Design of a Constituent Assembly (2012) (29)
- Constitutionalism and Democracy: Consequences of constitutional choice: reflections on Tocqueville (1988) (27)
- Don't Burn Your Bridge before You Come to It: Some Ambiguities and Complexities of Precommitment (2003) (27)
- Emotional Choice and Rational Choice (2009) (26)
- Sadder but wiser? Rationality and the emotions (1985) (26)
- Constitution-Making and Violence (2012) (26)
- Sour Grapes: Sour Grapes (1983) (25)
- Hard and Soft Obscurantism in the Humanities and Social Sciences (2011) (25)
- L'usage stratgique de l'argumentation (2005) (25)
- Interpretation and Rational Choice (2009) (24)
- Roemer versus Roemer: A Comment on "New Directions in the Marxian Theory of Exploitation and Class" (1982) (23)
- States that are essentially by-products (1981) (22)
- IS "ANALYTICAL MARXISM" MARXISM? (1988) (21)
- II. A paradigm for the social sciences (1982) (20)
- Coleman on social norms (2003) (19)
- Getting Hooked: Gambling and Addiction (1999) (18)
- Securities Against Misrule: Juries, Assemblies, Elections (2013) (18)
- Feelings and Emotions: Emotions and Rationality (2004) (18)
- Rational Ignorance and Beyond (2012) (18)
- Secrecy and Publicity in Votes and Debates (2015) (17)
- Wage Bargaining and Social Norms (1989) (17)
- Legislatures as Constituent Assemblies (2008) (16)
- Urgency (2009) (16)
- The Least Examined Branch: Legislatures as Constituent Assemblies (2006) (16)
- The Multiple Self (Studies in Rationality and Social Change). (1989) (16)
- The night of August 4, 1789. A study of social interaction in collective decision-making (2007) (15)
- Comparative Constitutional Design: Clearing and Strengthening the Channels of Constitution Making (2012) (15)
- Chapter 3 Altruistic Behavior and Altruistic Motivations (2006) (14)
- Self-poisoning of the mind (2010) (13)
- Utilitarianism and the genesis of wants (1982) (13)
- Ethical Individualism and Presentism (1993) (13)
- Patterns of Causal Analysis in Tocqueville's Democracy in America (1991) (13)
- Explaining Social Behavior: Desires and Opportunities (2007) (13)
- Local justice and interpersonal comparisons (1991) (13)
- Nuts and Bolts for the Social Sciences: Natural and Social Selection (1989) (13)
- Redemption for Wrongdoing (2006) (12)
- The ethics of medical choice (1994) (12)
- Justice, Truth, Peace (2012) (11)
- Social Norms and Economic Theory: Originally published in Journal of Economic Perspectives 3 (4), 1989 (2000) (10)
- Constitutionalism and Democracy: Arguments for constitutional choice: reflections on the transition to socialism (1988) (10)
- (Elster, Jon (1996), Rationality and the Emotions, The Economic Journal, 106 (438): 1386-1397) Rationality and the Emotions (1996) (10)
- Analytical Sociology and Social Mechanisms: Indeterminacy of emotional mechanisms (2011) (10)
- Interpersonal Comparisons of Well-being: Introduction (1991) (10)
- Reply to comments (1986) (10)
- Reason, interest and passion in the East European transitions (1999) (10)
- IDEOLOGY AND DYSTOPIA (2008) (10)
- Is There (or Should There Be) a Right to Work? (2020) (10)
- On seeing and being seen (2017) (9)
- Psychological perspectives on justice: Justice and the allocation of scarce resources (1993) (8)
- Rational Choice Theory: Cultural Concerns (2001) (8)
- Secret-Public Voting in FDA Advisory Committees (2015) (8)
- Explaining Social Behavior: Trust (2007) (8)
- Philosophy and the Problems of Work: A Reader (2001) (7)
- Book Reviews : Timar Kuran: Private Truths, Public Lies: The Social Consequences of Preference Falsification. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1995 (1996) (7)
- Risk, uncertainty and nuclear power (1979) (7)
- How Far Back Should We Go ? : Why Restitution Should be Small Tyler Cow en (2002) (7)
- The Valmont Effect (2011) (7)
- More than Enough (reviewing Accounting for Tastes by Gary S. Becker) (1997) (7)
- Practical Conflicts: Moral Dilemmas of Transitional Justice (2004) (6)
- Karl Marx : une interprétation analytique (1989) (6)
- Metoder og prinsipper i hermeneutisk forskningstradisjon (1979) (6)
- DELIBERATION, CYCLES, AND MISREPRESENTATION (2011) (6)
- Fehr on Altruism, Emotion, and Norms (2005) (6)
- Public Voting and Political Modernization: Different Views from the Nineteenth Century and New Ideas to Modernize Voting Procedures (2015) (6)
- Deducing interpersonal comparisons from local expertise Ignacio (1991) (6)
- Alternatives to Capitalism (2022) (6)
- Ulysses Unbound: Coda (2000) (6)
- Tocqueville: The Ancien Régime and the French Revolution (2011) (5)
- Reciprocity and Norms (2011) (5)
- The two great fears of 1789 (2011) (5)
- Explanation and Mechanisms (2015) (5)
- Making Nonsense of Marx@@@Making Sense of Marx. (1986) (5)
- Securities against Misrule (2013) (5)
- World, Mind, and Ethics: The idea of equality revisited (1995) (5)
- Kvalitet i forskning (2006) (5)
- Majority Decisions: Principles and Practices (2014) (5)
- Open Decision-Making Procedures and Public Legitimacy: An Inventory of Causal Mechanisms (2015) (5)
- Nuts and Bolts: For the Social Sciences.@@@Solomonic Judgements: Studies in the Limitations of Rationality.@@@The Cement of Society: A Study of the Social Order. (1990) (4)
- Institutional Design in Post-communist Societies: Introduction: agenda, agency, and the aims of Central East European transitions (1998) (4)
- Pascal and decision theory (2003) (4)
- Retribution and Reparation in the Transition to Democracy: Introduction (2006) (4)
- The Political Psychology of Constitution Making (2018) (4)
- Comments on Krouse and McPherson (1986) (4)
- Boudon, education and the theory of games (1976) (4)
- VII. Reply to comments (1980) (4)
- Explanation and value in the arts: Fullness and parsimony: notes on creativity in the arts (1993) (4)
- Alchemies of the Mind: Transmutation and Misrepresentation (1997) (4)
- Institutional Design in Post-communist Societies: References (1998) (4)
- Constituent Assemblies (2018) (4)
- Tocqueville: The Ancien Régime and the French Revolution: CAMBRIDGE TEXTS IN THE HISTORY OF POLITICAL THOUGHT (2011) (4)
- Sour Grapes: States That Are Essentially By-Products (1983) (3)
- What is Just?@@@Local Justice: How Institutions Allocate Scarce Goods and Necessary Burdens.@@@Equal Justice. (1994) (3)
- Tocqueville: The Ancien Régime and the French Revolution: TOCQUEVILLE: THE ANCIEN RÉGIME AND THE FRENCH REVOLUTION (2011) (3)
- Active and Passive Negation: An Essay in Ibanskian Sociology (1988) (3)
- Arguing about justice (2013) (3)
- Introduction: Why Political Psychology? (1993) (3)
- Choice and consequence. Perspectives of an Errant Economist: Thomas C. Schelling, (Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA, 1984) 363 pp., $20.00 (1985) (3)
- Sour Grapes: Rationality (1983) (3)
- Tocqueville on 1789: Preconditions, Precipitants, and Triggers (2006) (3)
- The Treatment of Counterfactuals: Reply to Brian Barry (1980) (3)
- The Cement of Society: Collective action and social norms (1989) (3)
- Clearing the Decks (1981) (3)
- Reply to comments (1983) (3)
- Taming Chance : Randomization in Individual (3)
- Explaining Social Behavior: Games and behavior (2007) (3)
- Transmutation and Misrepresentation (1996) (3)
- Reasoning: When Rationality Fails (2008) (3)
- The Cement of Society: Conclusion: the cement of society (1989) (3)
- Institutional Design in Post-communist Societies: Constitutional politics in Eastern Europe (1998) (2)
- Some notes on ‘Populism’ (2020) (2)
- France before 1789: The Unraveling of an Absolutist Regime (2020) (2)
- Comments on the paper by Ferejohn and Pasquino (2004) (2)
- Custody by the toss of a coin? (1988) (2)
- Alternativas al capitalismo (1993) (2)
- Nuts and Bolts for the Social Sciences: Mechanisms (1989) (2)
- Self-Interest and Altruism (2007) (2)
- Institutional Design in Post-communist Societies: Consolidation and the cleavages of ideology and identity (1998) (2)
- Closing the Books: The Structure of Transitional Justice (2004) (2)
- The Contradictions of Modern Societies (1984) (2)
- Why things don’t happen as planned (1993) (2)
- The Cement of Society: Introduction: the two problems of social order (1989) (2)
- Nuts and Bolts for the Social Sciences: When Rationality Fails (1989) (2)
- Nuts and Bolts for the Social Sciences: Desires and Opportunities (1989) (2)
- Optimism and pessimism in the discussion of the standard of living during the Industrial Revolution in Britain (1975) (2)
- Can the Philosophy of Science Help Science?@@@Explaining Technical Change: A Case Study in the Philosophy of Science. (1985) (2)
- Retribution in the Transition to Democracy (2001) (2)
- Norms, Emotions and Social Control (2002) (2)
- An Introduction to Karl Marx: Alienation (1986) (1)
- Putting faith to the ballot (2014) (1)
- Tocqueville: The Ancien Régime and the French Revolution: How the Revolution Emerged Naturally from the Foregoing (2011) (1)
- France before 1789 (2020) (1)
- Alexis de Tocqueville, the First Social Scientist: Patterns of Social Causality (2009) (1)
- Political Psychology: Preface (1993) (1)
- From Marx to emotions: Lecture given on the occasion of the award of honorary doctorate, University of Oslo, 2017 (2018) (1)
- Justice in Times of Transition: A Reflection on Transitional Justice (2013) (1)
- Karl Marx: A Reader: Preface (1986) (1)
- Persons and Situations (2007) (1)
- Tool-box or toy-box? Hard obscurantism in economic modeling (2016) (1)
- Rationalité et sciences sociales (2008) (1)
- Postcommunist Institutional Design@@@Institutional Design in Post-Communist Societies: Rebuilding the Ship at Sea@@@Postsocialist Pathways: Transforming Politics and Property in East Central Europe (1999) (1)
- Majority Decisions: Tyranny and brutality of the majority (2014) (1)
- Institutional Design in Post-communist Societies: Building and consolidating democracies (1998) (1)
- Philosophy of Social Sciences (2018) (1)
- Alchemies of the Mind: Alchemies of the Mind: Transmutation and Misrepresentation (1998) (1)
- Explaining Social Behavior: Conclusion: Is Social Science Possible? (2007) (1)
- Democracy, judgment, and juries (2014) (1)
- Emotions in Constitution-making: The 2016 Johan Skytte Prize Lecture (2017) (1)
- Alchemies of the Mind: A Plea for Mechanisms (1998) (1)
- [Letter: Health hazards caused by welding]. (1974) (1)
- Enthusiasm and anger in history (2020) (1)
- Closing the Books: Athens in 411 and 403 b.c. (2004) (1)
- The Cement of Society: Bargaining and social norms (1989) (1)
- Elster Og Sirenenes Sang (2010) (1)
- Collective Action in America Before 1787 (2018) (1)
- The Cement of Society: Social norms (1989) (1)
- Semi-public Voting at the Constituante (2015) (1)
- Justice and Democracy: Mimicking impartiality (2004) (1)
- Throwing a Veil Over Equality: Equality and Hypocrisy in the Revolutionary Era (2006) (1)
- If Marx or Freud had never lived (2011) (1)
- One social science or many?; World social science report 2010, knowledge divides: background paper; 2010 (2011) (1)
- Elster, Marx, and Method@@@Making Sense of Marx. (1991) (1)
- Tocqueville: The Ancien Régime and the French Revolution: Introduction (2011) (1)
- Social policy transformation (1998) (1)
- Constitutional Bootstrapping in Philadelphia and Paris (1994) (1)
- The Nature and Scope of Rational-Choice Explanation in Science in Reflection. The Israel Colloquium: Studies in History, Philosophy, and Sociology of Science (Vol. 3) (1988) (1)
- 34. Logic and Society and Ulysses and the Sirens (2016) (1)
- Karl Marx: A Reader: Historical Materialism (1986) (0)
- Alexis de Tocqueville, the First Social Scientist: Introduction (2009) (0)
- Tool-box or toy-box? Hard obscurantism in economic modeling (2015) (0)
- Closing the Books: ANALYTICS OF TRANSITIONAL JUSTICE (2004) (0)
- Reputation and Character (2012) (0)
- Nuts and Bolts for the Social Sciences: Social Change (1989) (0)
- Institutional Design in Post-communist Societies: Conclusion: the unfinished project (1998) (0)
- Ulysses Unbound: Ulysses Revisited: How and Why People Bind Themselves (2000) (0)
- Tocqueville: The Ancien Régime and the French Revolution: On Administrative Mores under the Ancien Régime (2011) (0)
- An Introduction to Karl Marx: Marx's Theory of Politics (1986) (0)
- My Most Regretted Statements (2017) (0)
- Democracy and Social Planning (1980) (0)
- Explanation by Consequences and Natural Selection (2007) (0)
- The Cement of Society: Bargaining and collective action (1989) (0)
- Transitional Justice as Universal Narrative (2014) (0)
- Hegel's heirs and errors (1997) (0)
- Explaining Social Behavior: Motivations (2007) (0)
- Indirecte Rede Jon Elster Over Rationaliteit En Irrationaliteit (1995) (0)
- Tocqueville: The Ancien Régime and the French Revolution: On Some Practices That Helped the Government Complete the People's Revolutionary Education (2011) (0)
- Deliberating Bodies (2020) (0)
- The Fall: A Comparative Study of the End of Communism in Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary and Poland by <string-name><given-name>Steven</given-name>s<surname>Saxonberg</surname></string-name> (review) (2008) (0)
- Explaining Social Behavior: Myopia and foresight (2007) (0)
- Explaining Social Behavior: Social Norms (2007) (0)
- Tocqueville: The Ancien Régime and the French Revolution: On the Kind of Liberty to Be Found under the Ancien Régime and Its Influence on the Revolution (2011) (0)
- Dagfinn Føllesdal: A Personal Memoir (2013) (0)
- Tocqueville: The Ancien Régime and the French Revolution: That France Was the Country Where People Had Become Most Alike (2011) (0)
- Closing the Books: Emotions (2004) (0)
- Karl Marx: A Reader: Class Consciousness and Class Struggle (1986) (0)
- Er samfunnsvitenskap mulig? (2020) (0)
- Bibliography (2001) (0)
- The Wisdom of Crowds Juliette (2014) (0)
- Explaining Social Behavior: Constraints: opportunities and abilities (2015) (0)
- Retribution and Reparation in the Transition to Democracy: LATIN AMERICA, POST COMMUNISM, AND SOUTH AFRICA (2006) (0)
- Erratum to: On seeing and being seen (2017) (0)
- Tocqueville: The Ancien Régime and the French Revolution: How Almost All of Europe Had Exactly the Same Institutions, and How Those Institutions Were Crumbling Everywhere (2011) (0)
- Alchemies of the Mind: Preface and Acknowledgments (1998) (0)
- The Cement of Society: REFERENCES (1989) (0)
- Ulysses Unbound: Preface and Acknowledgments (2000) (0)
- The Cement of Society: Bargaining (1989) (0)
- Tocqueville: The Ancien Régime and the French Revolution: How a Great Administrative Revolution Preceded the Political Revolution, and on the Consequences It Had (2011) (0)
- An Introduction to Karl Marx: Class Consciousness and Class Struggle (1986) (0)
- Some Implications for Textual Interpretation (2007) (0)
- Majority rules in constitutional democracies (2014) (0)
- Tocqueville in English (1999) (0)
- Institusjonsbygging gjennom dobbelt nektelse (2014) (0)
- Explaining Social Behavior: Mechanisms (2007) (0)
- Tocqueville, Social Science and Democracy (2010) (0)
- Closing the Books: Victims (2004) (0)
- Alchemies of the Mind: Emotions Before Psychology (1998) (0)
- ing—or undermining—relations based on equality will further advance the debate (2011) (0)
- Tocqueville: The Ancien Régime and the French Revolution: Chronology (2011) (0)
- and the Challenges of the Constitution-Making Process : A Critical Review (2014) (0)
- Explaining Social Behavior: Interpretation (2007) (0)
- Rationality, Democracy, and Justice: Comments (2015) (0)
- Conclusion (2020) (0)
- Majority Decisions: Nested majorities (2014) (0)
- CAN volume 21 issue 1 Cover and Back matter (1991) (0)
- A Note on the Texts (2009) (0)
- The Psychology of the Main Social Groups: (2020) (0)
- The Strategic Use of Argumentation (2005) (0)
- Reinforcement and selection (2015) (0)
- Institutional Design in Post-communist Societies: Building capitalism in Eastern Europe (1998) (0)
- Ulysses Unbound: Less Is More: Creativity and Constraints in the Arts (2000) (0)
- Explaining Social Behavior: THE MIND (2007) (0)
- Political Psychology: A Historian and the Irrational: A Reading of Bread and Circuses (1993) (0)
- Introduction (2020) (0)
- Deliberative Democracy: Preface and Acknowledgment (1998) (0)
- Explaining Social Behavior: Explanation (2015) (0)
- Nuts and Bolts for the Social Sciences: Rational Choice (1989) (0)
- Alchemies of the Mind: Social Emotions in Historical Context (1998) (0)
- Institutions and constitutions (2015) (0)
- An Introduction to Karl Marx: Marxist Methodology (1986) (0)
- Ulysses Unbound: Ulysses Unbound: Constitutions as Constraints (2000) (0)
- Alexis de Tocqueville, the First Social Scientist: Conclusion (2009) (0)
- Tocqueville: The Ancien Régime and the French Revolution: How Administrative Justice and the Immunity of Public Officials Were Institutions of the Ancien Régime (2011) (0)
- Tocqueville: The Ancien Régime and the French Revolution: Why Feudal Prerogatives Had Become More Odious to the People in France Than Anywhere Else (2011) (0)
- Tocqueville: The Ancien Régime and the French Revolution: How, Despite the Progress of Civilization, the Condition of the French Peasant Was Sometimes Worse in the Eighteenth Century Than It Had Been in the Thirteenth (2011) (0)
- Nuts and Bolts for the Social Sciences: Social Institutions (1989) (0)
- Explaining Social Behavior: Rationality and Behavior (2007) (0)
- Tocqueville: The Ancien Régime and the French Revolution: How What Today Is Called Administrative Tutelage Is an Institution of the Ancien Régime (2011) (0)
- Desires and Opportunities: Alexis de Tocqueville's Political Psychology (1993) (0)
- Tocqueville: The Ancien Régime and the French Revolution: What Was the Essential Achievement of the French Revolution? (2011) (0)
- What Is Living and What Is Dead in the Philosophy of Marx (1986) (0)
- 555PP-,£ 2500 Davis, Caroline Franks, The Evidential Force of Religious Experience, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1989, 276pp.,£ 27.50 Donaldson, John, Key Issues in Business Ethics, Sidcup, Kent, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich Ltd., 1989, 251pp.,£ 25.00, paper£ 9.95 (1990) (0)
- Equality and Mobility (2009) (0)
- Tocqueville: The Ancien Régime and the French Revolution: How France, of All the Countries of Europe, Was Already the One in Which the Capital Had Achieved the Greatest Preponderance over the Provinces and Most Fully Subsumed the Entire Country (2011) (0)
- An Introduction to Karl Marx: Exploitation (1986) (0)
- Explaining Social Behavior: Collective Belief Formation (2007) (0)
- Closing the Books: The French Restorations in 1814 and 1815 (2004) (0)
- Closing the Books: THE UNIVERSE OF TRANSITIONAL JUSTICE (2004) (0)
- Closing the Books: Politics (2004) (0)
- Erratum to: On seeing and being seen (2017) (0)
- Tocqueville: The Ancien Régime and the French Revolution: Bibliographical Note (2011) (0)
- Knowledge and the Politics of Transition (2001) (0)
- les sciences sociales face à l'irrationnel (2015) (0)
- Tocqueville: The Ancien Régime and the French Revolution: Contradictory Judgments of the Revolution at Its Inception (2011) (0)
- Explaining Social Behavior: Collective Decision Making (2007) (0)
- The Optimal Design of Constituent Assemblies (2013) (0)
- Mapping Eastern Europe (1998) (0)
- Explaining Social Behavior: ACTION (2007) (0)
- Tocqueville: The Ancien Régime and the French Revolution: How the French Revolution Was a Political Revolution That Proceeded in the Manner of Religious Revolutions, and Why (2011) (0)
- Explaining Social Behavior: Self-interest and altruism (2015) (0)
- Political Psychology: Tocqueville's Psychology II (1993) (0)
- Analytic Narratives by Bates, Greif, Levi, Rosenthal, and Weingast: A Review and Response Rational Choice History: A Case of Excessive Ambition (2000) (0)
- Analytic Narratives by Bates, Greif, Levi, Rosenthal, and Weingast: A Review and Response Rational Choice History: A Case of Excessive Ambition (2000) (0)
- Tocqueville: The Ancien Régime and the French Revolution: How Attempts to Relieve the People Stirred Them to Revolt (2011) (0)
- Closing the Books: The Larger Universe of Cases (2004) (0)
- Explaining Social Behavior: Collective Action (2007) (0)
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