Rationality and Society

1989 - 2025

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Volume 37, issue 1, 2025

Why the political party that supports social welfare programs is advantaged in campaign fundraising pp. 3-34

Noah P Mark

Beliefs, strategic interaction, and Hong Kong’s anti-extradition law movement: A game-theoretic analysis pp. 35-64

Theodore Charm

Promises betrayed? Ideological commitments and revolutionary outcomes pp. 65-92

Matthew Toro and Steven Pfaff

Collective intentions of the social economy: An experiment on the community currency of the French Basque country pp. 93-125

Hayyan Alia-Thorey and Eli Spiegelman

Book Review: The Palgrave Handbook of Methodological Individualism, Vol. 1 & 2 pp. 126-134

Thomas Voss

Volume 36, issue 4, 2024

Is aiming high always a good thing? A behavioral model of aspiration failure with evidence from lower-secondary students in China pp. 409-447

Shuangda Wei

Managing and aggregating group evidence under quality and quantity trade-offs pp. 448-479

Zoi Terzopoulou, Patricia Mirabile and Pien Spekreijse

A strategic model of polytheism pp. 480-501

Laurent Gauthier

Persistent and self-perpetuating political differences between neighbouring communities pp. 502-527

Afiq bin Oslan

Official media use, political participation, and government trust structure. An empirical study based on the attitude of Chinese netizens pp. 528-557

Qian Hu and Yanping Pu

Volume 36, issue 3, 2024

Untangling expectations and sacrifices: Ultra-Orthodox men in Israel and the religious club model pp. 289-311

Yossi Perelman and Chen Goldberg

Building a reputation for trustworthiness: Experimental evidence on the role of the feedback rate pp. 312-344

Ruohuang Jiao, Wojtek Przepiorka and Vincent Buskens

Martial races as clubs? The institutional logic of the martial race system of British India pp. 345-372

Charles Miller

Refined tastes, coarse tastes: Solving the stratification-of-goods enigma pp. 373-400

Elias L Khalil

Explaining mobilization for revolts by private interests and kinship relations. A comment on Armandola, Doehne and Rost pp. 401-406

Ricardo Nieva

Volume 36, issue 2, 2024

Does improved upward social mobility foster frustration and conflict? A large-scale online experiment testing Boudon’s model pp. 157-182

Joël Berger, Andreas Diekmann and Stefan Wehrli

Graduated sanctioning, endogenous institutions and sustainable cooperation in common-pool resources: An experimental test pp. 183-229

Fijnanda van Klingeren and Vincent Buskens

The role of generalized trust and control in the employment of domestic help – An experimental case study for Germany and the UK pp. 230-253

Martin Abraham, Natascha Nisic, Miriam Trübner, Hanna Walch and Anja Wunder

Explaining mobilization for revolts by private interests and kinship relations pp. 254-285

Niccolò G. Armandola, Malte Doehne and Katja Rost

Volume 36, issue 1, 2024

Reviewer Acknowledgements pp. 3-4

Andreas Flache and Jonas Stein

Externality and taboo: Resolving the Judaic pig puzzle pp. 5-33

Peter Leeson, Vincent Geloso and Nicholas A Snow

High realistic aspirations – Do normative pressures overthrow rational calculations? Applying the model of frame selection to the educational aspirations of immigrant and majority students in Germany pp. 34-65

Miriam Schmaus, Melanie Olczyk, Sebastian Neumeyer and Gisela Will

Public preferences to trade-off gains in total health for health equality: Discrepancies between an abstract scenario versus the real-world scenario presented by COVID-19 pp. 66-92

David A Comerford, Angela Tufte-Hewett and Emma K Bridger

Cooperation sustainability in small groups: Exogenous and endogenous dynamics of the sustainability of cooperation pp. 93-121

Zeynep Melis Kirgil and Rafael Wittek

Reconsidering Miranda rights: Modeling strategic action during the invocation stage of a police interrogation pp. 122-153

Robert D Mason and Marianne Mason

Volume 35, issue 4, 2023

Trust, reputation, and the value of promises in online auctions of used goods pp. 387-419

Judith Kas, Rense Corten and Arnout van de Rijt

Selectively liberal? Social change and attitudes towards homosexual relations in the UK pp. 420-447

Alan Collins, Stephen Drinkwater and Colin Jennings

Optimal and politically opportune language policies for the vitality of minority languages pp. 448-479

Bengt-Arne Wickström

An analytical narrative of the Day of Dupes pp. 480-501

Bertrand Crettez, Régis Deloche and Ronan Tallec

Self-Interest, prosociality, and the moral cognition of markets: A comparative analysis of the Theory of Moral Sentiments and the Wealth of Nations pp. 502-524

Alberto Acerbi and Pier Luigi Sacco

Volume 35, issue 3, 2023

Lethality and deterrence in affairs of honor: The case of the Antebellum U.S. South pp. 259-292

Tom Ahn, Paul Shea and Jeremy Sandford

Can misfortune lead to dishonesty? pp. 293-310

Claire Mouminoux

Are upper-secondary track decisions risky? Evidence from Sweden on the assumptions of risk-aversion models pp. 311-337

Anton B Andersson, Carlo Barone and Martin Hällsten

The clear expectation of cultural betterment in the face of rising living standards pp. 338-365

Ryan H Murphy

Camouflage: A dominant reaction to worsening conditions pp. 366-384

Bruno Frey

Volume 35, issue 2, 2023

Does money strengthen our social ties? Longitudinal evidence of lottery winners pp. 139-166

Joan Costa-Font and Nattavudh Powdthavee

The King’s Gambit: Rationalizing the fall of the Templars pp. 167-190

Gabriel F. Benzecry and Marcus Shera

Nudge in perspective: A systematic literature review on the ethical issues with nudging pp. 191-230

Paul Kuyer and Bert Gordijn

Political inequality in participation index - a Gini-based measure of inequalities in political participation pp. 231-255

Pál Susánszky, Robert Somogyi and Gergely Tóth

Volume 35, issue 1, 2023

The specialization of informal social control in a selective community: Fighting in the National Hockey League from 1947 to 2019 pp. 3-33

Antonio D Sirianni

Socioeconomic status, reputation, and interpersonal trust in peer-to-peer markets: Evidence from an online experiment pp. 34-60

Marijn A Keijzer and Rense Corten

Social capital and mobility: An experimental study pp. 61-80

OndÅ™ej KrÄ Ã¡l, Å tÄ›pán Mikula and Rostislav StanÄ›k

Voting behavior as social action: Habits, norms, values, and rationality in electoral participation pp. 81-109

Rolf Becker

Understanding the stickiness in high-SES students’ educational expectations: The role of private schools pp. 110-136

Manuel T Valdés

Volume 34, issue 4, 2022

The social production of property pp. 421-445

David Willer and Pamela Emanuelson

Regulation and state capacity pp. 446-468

Arjun Chowdhury

Hostile-emotional excess of zeal in public social media: A case study of an online firestorm against an organization pp. 469-500

Katja Rost and Lea Stahel

Support for social policies: Focusing on effects of group belonging pp. 501-525

Naoki Sudo

Buildings and welfare pp. 526-547

Mats Ekman

Volume 34, issue 3, 2022

Intergenerational class mobility in industrial and post-industrial societies: Towards a general theory pp. 271-301

Erzsébet Bukodi and John H Goldthorpe

Towards a nuanced understanding of anti-immigration sentiment in the welfare state – a program specific analysis of welfare preferences pp. 302-333

Matthias Diermeier and Judith Niehues

Verbal interaction in a social dilemma pp. 334-367

Zoë Adams, Agata Ludwiczak, Devyani Sharma and Magda Osman

Coherence between theory and policy in Nudge and Boost: Is it relevant for evidence-based policy-making? pp. 368-394

Daphne Truijens

Divisiveness, splintering, and the rational interpretation of text pp. 395-418

Jacqueline Joslyn

Volume 34, issue 2, 2022

Emergence of and compliance with new social norms: The example of the COVID crisis in Germany pp. 129-154

Andreas Diekmann

Black-White incentive inequality for college persistence pp. 155-184

Dirk Witteveen and Paul Attewell

Party competition and the structuring of party preferences by the left-right dimension pp. 185-217

Holger Reinermann

The persistence of opposition in an oppressive regime: The case of the Catholic Church in Czechoslovakia pp. 218-236

Pavol Minarik

Feudal bargain in Prague: The rise, spread, and fall of craft guilds pp. 237-267

David Dolejší

Volume 34, issue 1, 2022

Reviewer Acknowledgements pp. 3-5

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A formal model of street-level bureaucracy pp. 6-27

Ahrum Chang

The Peace of God pp. 28-55

Andrew Young

A picture of regret: An empirical investigation of post-Brexit referendum survey data pp. 56-77

Alan Collins, Adam Cox and Gianpiero Torrisi

Mine or ours? Unintended framing effects in dictator games pp. 78-95

Andreas Bergh and Philipp Wichardt

Parental time preferences and educational choices: The role of children’s gender and of social origin pp. 96-125

Daniela Bellani and Luis Ortiz-Gervasi