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Rational Lives: Norms and Values in Politics and Society. By Dennis Chong. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000. 292p. $45.00 cloth, $18.00 paper.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 January 2003

Howard Margolis
Howard Margolis
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Dennis Chong proposes an account of how to forge a merger between rational choice and sociological explanations of the role of norms, values, and symbols in politics. The core idea is that norms and values (not just self-interest) are indeed essential for understanding political choice (as a sociologist would expect), but that norms and values have to develop. Those in place today change over time. And rational choice enters in guiding that evolution.

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American Political Science Review , Volume 96 , Issue 4 , December 2002 , pp. 821 - 822
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© 2002 by the American Political Science Association

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