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Sour Grapes: Studies in the Subversion of Rationality

By Jon Elster

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Hardcover:

9780521252300 | Cambridge Univ Pr, July 1, 1983, cover price $88.99 | also contains Destiny and Power: The American Odyssey of George Herbert Walker Bush

Paperback:

9781316507001 | Cambridge Univ Pr, June 6, 2016, cover price $24.99

9780521313681 | Reprint edition (Cambridge Univ Pr, November 1, 1985), cover price $54.99

Explaining Social Behavior: More Nuts And Bolts for the Social Sciences

By Jon Elster

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Hardcover:

9781107071186 | Revised edition (Cambridge Univ Pr, July 30, 2015), cover price $110.00

9780521771795 | 1 edition (Cambridge Univ Pr, April 30, 2007), cover price $114.99

Paperback:

9781107416413 | Revised edition (Cambridge Univ Pr, July 31, 2015), cover price $36.99

9780521777445 | 1 edition (Cambridge Univ Pr, April 30, 2007), cover price $34.99

Secrecy and Publicity in Votes and Debates

Product Description: In the spirit of Jeremy Bentham's Political Tactics, this volume offers the first comprehensive discussion of the effects of secrecy and publicity on debates and votes in committees and assemblies. The contributors - sociologists, political scientists, historians, and legal scholars - consider the micro-technology of voting (the devil is in the detail), the historical relations between the secret ballot and universal suffrage, the use and abolition of secret voting in parliamentary decisions, and the sometimes perverse effects of the drive for greater openness and transparency in public affairs...read more

By Jon Elster (editor)

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9781107083363 | Cambridge Univ Pr, June 26, 2015, cover price $99.99 | About this edition: In the spirit of Jeremy Bentham's Political Tactics, this volume offers the first comprehensive discussion of the effects of secrecy and publicity on debates and votes in committees and assemblies.

Collective Wisdom: Principles and Mechanisms

By Jon Elster (editor)

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Hardcover:

9781107010338 | Cambridge Univ Pr, July 16, 2012, cover price $109.99

Paperback:

9781107630277 | Reprint edition (Cambridge Univ Pr, May 1, 2014), cover price $34.99

Securities Against Misrule: Juries, Assemblies, Elections

By Jon Elster

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Hardcover:

9781107031739 | Cambridge Univ Pr, April 22, 2013, cover price $94.99

Paperback:

9781107649958 | Cambridge Univ Pr, April 29, 2013, cover price $32.99

Transitional Justice

Product Description: Criminal tribunals, truth commissions, reparations, apologies and memorializations are the characteristic instruments in the transitional justice toolkit that can help societies transition from authoritarianism to democracy, from civil war to peace, and from state-sponsored extra-legal violence to a rights-respecting rule of law...read more

By Jon Elster (editor), Rosemary Nagy (editor) and Melissa S. Williams (editor)

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9780814794661, titled "Transitional Justice: Noms Li" | New York Univ Pr, May 28, 2012, cover price $60.00 | About this edition: Criminal tribunals, truth commissions, reparations, apologies and memorializations are the characteristic instruments in the transitional justice toolkit that can help societies transition from authoritarianism to democracy, from civil war to peace, and from state-sponsored extra-legal violence to a rights-respecting rule of law.

Alexis De Tocqueville, the First Social Scientist

Product Description: The book proposes a new interpretation of Alexis de Tocqueville that views him first and foremost as a social scientist rather than as a political theorist. Drawing on his earlier work on the explanation of social behavior, Elster argues that Tocqueville's main claim to our attention today rests on the large number of exportable causal mechanisms to be found in his work, many of which are still worthy of further exploration...read more

By Jon Elster

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9780521518444 | 1 edition (Cambridge Univ Pr, April 27, 2009), cover price $99.99 | About this edition: The book proposes a new interpretation of Alexis de Tocqueville that views him first and foremost as a social scientist rather than as a political theorist.

Paperback:

9780521740074 | 1 edition (Cambridge Univ Pr, April 27, 2009), cover price $28.99 | About this edition: The book proposes a new interpretation of Alexis de Tocqueville that views him first and foremost as a social scientist rather than as a political theorist.

Getting Hooked: Rationality and Addiction

Product Description: The essays in this volume offer the most thorough and up-to-date discussion available of the relationship between addiction and rationality. This is the only book-length treatment of the subject and includes contributions from philosophers, psychiatrists, neurobiologists, sociologists, and economists...read more

By Jon Elster (editor) and Ole-Jorgen Skog (editor)

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9780521640084 | Cambridge Univ Pr, March 1, 1999, cover price $160.00 | About this edition: The hero cycles of Arabic belong to the literary tradition of The Arabian Nights and can be seen as the popular epics of their civilisation.

Paperback:

9780521038799 | 1 edition (Cambridge Univ Pr, August 20, 2007), cover price $69.99 | About this edition: The essays in this volume offer the most thorough and up-to-date discussion available of the relationship between addiction and rationality.

Rendicion de cuentas/ Surrender of accounts: La Justicia Transicional En Perspectiva Historica/ the Traditional Justice in Historic Perspective

Product Description: Objeto de creciente interÃ©s para la ciencia polÃtica, la teorÃa del derecho y la sociologÃa, asÃ como para los filÃ³sofos morales y los historiadores, la justicia transicional es el conjunto de procesos interrelacionados de enjuiciamiento, rendiciÃ³n de cuentas, difusiÃ³n de la verdad, reparaciÃ³n de los daÃ±os sufridos por la...read more

By Jon Elster

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9788493518752 | Advanced Marketing s De Rl De Cv, June 30, 2007, cover price $40.95 | About this edition: Objeto de creciente interÃ©s para la ciencia polÃtica, la teorÃa del derecho y la sociologÃa, asÃ como para los filÃ³sofos morales y los historiadores, la justicia transicional es el conjunto de procesos interrelacionados de enjuiciamiento, rendiciÃ³n de cuentas, difusiÃ³n de la verdad, reparaciÃ³n de los daÃ±os sufridos por las

Understanding Choice, Explaining Behaviour: Essays in Honour of Ole-joergen Skog

By Jon Elster (editor), Olav Gjelsvik (editor), Aanund Hylland (editor), Hans Olav Melberg (editor) and Karl Moene (editor)

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9788274772373 | Intl Specialized Book Services, August 1, 2006, cover price $59.00

Retribution And Reparation In The Transition To Democracy

Product Description: The contributions in this study present a comprehensive analysis of transitional justice from 1945 to the present. They feature a general theoretical analysis of the processes of retribution and reparation as well as case studies by historians and political scientists who discuss the West European transitions after 1945 and more recent Latin American, East European, and South African transitions to democracy in the 1980s and 1990s...read more

By Jon Elster (editor)

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9780521829731 | Cambridge Univ Pr, May 31, 2006, cover price $139.99 | About this edition: The contributions in this study present a comprehensive analysis of transitional justice from 1945 to the present.

Logica y sociedad/ Logic And Society: Contradicciones Y Mundos Posibles/ Contradictions and Possible Worlds

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By Jon Elster

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9788474324655 | Gedisa Editorial S A, April 30, 2006, cover price $31.95 | About this edition: New product.

El cemento de la sociedad/ The Cement Of Society: Las Paradojas Del Orden Social

Product Description: Las normas sociales, ademÃ¡s de garantizar el funcionamiento racional de una sociedad, aseguran que los mecanismos que rigen las relaciones entre los individuos no se desintegren en el desorden y el caos y se mantengan dentro de los lÃmites de la lÃ³gica y del sentido comÃºn...read more

By Jon Elster

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9788474324020 | Gedisa Editorial S A, January 30, 2006, cover price $42.95 | About this edition: Las normas sociales, ademÃ¡s de garantizar el funcionamiento racional de una sociedad, aseguran que los mecanismos que rigen las relaciones entre los individuos no se desintegren en el desorden y el caos y se mantengan dentro de los lÃmites de la lÃ³gica y del sentido comÃºn.

Closing the Books: Transitional Justice in Historical Perspective

Product Description: After a change of political system, notably a transition from an autocratic to a democratic, or at least constitutional, regime, a process of transitional justice emerges in which wrongdoers from the previous regime are judged responsible and victims are compensated...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Jon Elster

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9780521839693 | Cambridge Univ Pr, September 6, 2004, cover price $105.00

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9780521548540 | Cambridge Univ Pr, September 30, 2004, cover price $44.99 | About this edition: After a change of political system, notably a transition from an autocratic to a democratic, or at least constitutional, regime, a process of transitional justice emerges in which wrongdoers from the previous regime are judged responsible and victims are compensated.

Tuercas y tornillos/ Nuts And Bolts: Introduccion a Las Ciencias Sociales

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By Jon Elster

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9788474323962 | Gedisa Editorial S A, May 30, 2003, cover price $32.95 | About this edition: BOOKS IN SPANISH

Alquimias de la mente/ Alchemies of the Mind: La Racionalidad Y Las Emociones/ Rationality and the Emotions

By Jon Elster

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9788449313059 | Italian edition edition (Paidos Iberica Ediciones S A, November 1, 2002), cover price $59.95

Sobre las pasiones: Emocion, adiccion y conducta humana

Product Description: La emociÃ³n y la adicciÃ³n forman parte de un circuito mental que discurre desde los impulsos claramente viscerales (como el hambre, la sed y el deseo sexual) hasta la adopciÃ³n serena y racional de decisiones. AsÃ, aunque presupongan motivaciones viscerales, tambiÃ©n estÃ¡n estrechamente unidas a aspectos cognitivos y culturales, suministrando asÃ un material fascinante para el estudio que Jon Elster realiza en este volumen sobre las interrelaciones entre tres enfoques explicativos de la conducta: la neurobiologÃa, el anÃ¡lisis cultural y la teorÃa de la elecciÃ³n...read more

By Jon Elster

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9788449310973, titled "Sobre las pasiones / On The Passions: Emocion, adiccion y conducta humana" | Paidos Iberica Ediciones S A, February 1, 2001, cover price $33.95 | About this edition: La emociÃ³n y la adicciÃ³n forman parte de un circuito mental que discurre desde los impulsos claramente viscerales (como el hambre, la sed y el deseo sexual) hasta la adopciÃ³n serena y racional de decisiones.

Democracia deliberativa/ Deliberative Democracy

By Jon Elster (compiler)

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9788474327175 | Gedisa Editorial S A, January 30, 2001, cover price $42.95

Strong Feelings: Emotion, Addiction, and Human Behavior

Product Description: Emotion and addiction lie on a continuum between simple visceral drives such as hunger, thirst, and sexual desire at one end and calm, rational decision making at the other. Although emotion and addiction involve visceral motivation, they are also closely linked to cognition and culture...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Jon Elster

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9780262050562 | Bradford Books, March 26, 1999, cover price $52.50

Paperback:

9780262550369 | 1 edition (Bradford Books, July 31, 2000), cover price $22.00 | About this edition: Emotion and addiction lie on a continuum between simple visceral drives such as hunger, thirst, and sexual desire at one end and calm, rational decision making at the other.

Ulysses Unbound: Studies in Rationality, Precommitment, and Constraints

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By Jon Elster

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Hardcover:

9780521662130 | Cambridge Univ Pr, April 1, 2000, cover price $120.00

Paperback:

9780521665612 | Cambridge Univ Pr, March 28, 2000, cover price $54.99

Addiction: Entries and Exits

Product Description: Addiction focuses on the emergence, nature, and persistence of addictive behavior, as well as the efforts of addicts to overcome their condition. Do addicts act of their own free will, or are they driven by forces beyond their control? Do structured treatment programs offer more hope for recovery? What causes relapses to occur? Recent scholarship has focused attention on the voluntary aspects of addiction, particularly the role played by choice...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Jon Elster (editor)

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9780871542359 | Russell Sage Foundation, October 1, 1999, cover price $39.95 | About this edition: Addiction focuses on the emergence, nature, and persistence of addictive behavior, as well as the efforts of addicts to overcome their condition.

Juicios salomonicos/ Solomonic Judgments: Las Limitaciones De La Recionalidad Como Principio De Decision

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By Jon Elster

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9788474324150 | Gedisa Editorial S A, April 30, 1999, cover price $30.95 | About this edition: New product.

Alchemies of the Mind: Rationality and the Emotions

Product Description: Jon Elster has written a comprehensive, wide-ranging book on the emotions in which he considers the full range of theoretical approaches. Drawing on history, literature, philosophy and psychology Elster presents a complete account of the role of the emotions in human behavior...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Jon Elster

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9780521642798 | Cambridge Univ Pr, April 1, 1999, cover price $145.00 | About this edition: Jon Elster has written a comprehensive, wide-ranging book on the emotions in which he considers the full range of theoretical approaches.

Paperback:

9780521644877 | Cambridge Univ Pr, April 1, 1999, cover price $59.99 | About this edition: Jon Elster has written a comprehensive, wide-ranging book on the emotions in which he considers the full range of theoretical approaches.

Deliberative Democracy

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By Jon Elster (editor)

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Hardcover:

9780521592963 | Cambridge Univ Pr, August 1, 1998, cover price $110.00

Paperback:

9780521596961 | Cambridge Univ Pr, April 1, 1998, cover price $39.99

Institutional Design in Post-Communist Societies: Rebuilding the Ship at Sea

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By Jon Elster, Claus Offe and Ulrich Klaus Preuss

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Hardcover:

9780521473866 | Cambridge Univ Pr, February 1, 1998, cover price $129.99

Paperback:

9780521479318 | Cambridge Univ Pr, April 1, 1998, cover price $49.99

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