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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. John Elster looks at examples and proposes a framework for explaining variations. In addition to the numerous transitions after 1945 in Western Europe and after 1989 in Eastern Eu...

Offers the first comprehensive discussion of the effects of secrecy and publicity on debates and votes in committees and assemblies.

Arguing that Tocqueville was fundamentally a social scientist rather than a political theorist, Elster emphasizes Tocqueville's substantive and methodological insights.

Frontmatter -- Einleitung -- I. Wie entstehen unsere Überzeugungen? -- II. Welche Überzeugungen sollten wir haben? -- III. Die Hypothetisch-Deduktive Methode -- IV. Die Anwendung der hypothetisch-deduktiven Methode in den Gesellschafts- und Geisteswissenschaften und in der Ethik -- V. Wissenschaftliche Erklärung -- VI. Zwei wichtige Formen sozialwissenschaftlicher Erklärung -- VII. Sprache -- VIII. Logik -- IX. Deduktive Argumentation -- X. Wa...

Arguing that Tocqueville was fundamentally a social scientist rather than a political theorist, Elster emphasizes Tocqueville's substantive and methodological insights.

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A comprehensive book on the emotions considering the full range of theoretical approaches.

This provocative textbook takes up and develops the themes of rationality and irrationality in Jon Elster's earlier work.

First published in 1986, this volume of essays offers an examination of the philosophical foundations of social choice theory.

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. The volume offers an up-to-date exposition of the neurophysiology of addiction, a critical examination of the Becker theory of rational addictio...

In this volume, Jon Elster approaches the study of technical change from an epistemological perspective.

This provocative book argues that, very often, people may benefit from being constrained in their options or from being ignorant.

The essays in this provocative new collection survey and assess institutional arrangements that could be alternatives to capitalism as it exists today. The point of departure agreed upon by the contributors is that on the one hand, capitalism produces unemployment, a lack of autonomy in the workplace, and massive income inequalities, while on the other, central socialist planning is characterized by underemployment, inefficiency, and bureaucra...

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The essays in this volume consider the question of whether the self is a unity or whether it should be conceived without metaphor as divided - as a 'multiple self'. The issue is a central one for several disciplines. It bears directly on the account of rationality and the explanation of individual decision-making and behavior.

La emoción y la adicción forman parte de un circuito mental que discurre desde los impulsos claramente viscerales (como el hambre, la sed y el deseo sexual) hasta la adopción serena y racional de decisiones. Así, aunque presupongan motivaciones viscerales, también están estrechamente unidas a aspectos cognitivos y culturales, suministrando así un material fascinante para el estudio que Jon Elster realiza en este volumen sobre las interrelacion...

The eleven essays in this volume, supplemented by an editorial introduction, centre around three overlapping problems. First, why would a society want to limit its own sovereign power by imposing constitutional constraints on democratic decision-making? Second, what are the contributions of democracy and constitutions to efficient government? Third, what are the relations among democracy, constitutionalism, and private property? This comprehen...

This book examines the problems and issues facing formerly communist states as they seek to develop a new democratic political order and a market economy.