Political Science and Public Choice: 1950-70

William C Mitchell

Public Choice, 1999, vol. 98, issue 3-4, 237-49

Abstract: The early contributors to Public Choice did not find a sympathetic reception among political scientists. During the years 1950-70, political scientists were either indifferent to or hostile to the emerging field of rational choice in which the approach and tools of economics are applied to politics. In the essay that follows, the author attempts to explain this situation and why another revolution--the behavioral--dominated political science for more than twenty years. Despite the prominence of rational choice in some political science journals, that dominance continues, a matter he hopes to address in a subsequent article. Copyright 1999 by Kluwer Academic Publishers

Date: 1999
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