| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 315 pages) : illustrations |
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text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-307) and index. |
| Summary |
This book develops an argument to explain the unpredictability of the behaviour of individuals. The author then highlights the danger of institutional reforms undermining the very capacity to generate predictability which is so central to their success. |
| Contents |
Introduction -- The psychological predictability problem -- Rational choice responses -- Behaviourally informed responses -- Behaviourally determined responders -- Outlook : implications for interaction with higher complexity -- Predictability at the crossroads of competing institutionalisms. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Human behavior.
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Human behavior. |
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Social institutions.
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Social institutions. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Engel, Christoph, 1956- Generating predictability. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2005 9780521851398 (DLC) 2006295275 (OCoLC)61176548 |
| ISBN |
9780511490033 (electronic book) |
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0511490038 (electronic book) |
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9780511137440 (electronic book) |
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0511137443 (electronic book) |
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9786610431632 |
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6610431639 |
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0511135270 |
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9780511135279 |
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0521851394 (Cloth) |
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9780521851398 |
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