PART I
RATIONAL CHOICE THEORY
Rational choice scholars warn against conflating analytical
assumptions in rational choice scholarship with empirical
assumptions.
In terms of rationalist models in IPE scholarship, Martha Finnemore
and Henry Farrell have raised questions about the
strong
relationship between rational choice models and quantitative
methods
, pointing out that qualitative methods may be more or
equally suitable in empirical tests of rational choice models due to
problems in quantitatively assessing strategic interactions.
According to Peter Katzenstein, Robert Keohane and Stephen
Krasner,
rational choice research is limited in the sense that it
struggles to explain the sources of actors' preferences.
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