“Rational choice has come quite a way,” a Stanford University professor, Barry Weingast, said. “Thirty years ago, it was far outside the mainstream in political science in almost every respect.” Mr.

If we are to believe the proponents of the Theory of Practice and of Rational Choice, the gap between these two paradigmatic approaches cannot be bridged. They rely on ontological premises, theories ...

Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory: J-PART, Vol. 11, No. 1 (Jan., 2001), pp. 3-27 (25 pages) This article focuses on the role of scientific inference in the study of bureaucracy. Its ...