Rule Systems Theory

The Editors: Helena Flam is Professor of Sociology at the University of Leipzig. Her most recent works deal with institutional discrimination and the sociology of emotions.
Marcus Carson is a researcher and senior lecturer at Stockholm University's Department of Sociology. His research explores the role of ideas, institutions, and organized actors in policy making.

lt;i>Contents: Nina Witoszek: Comrade Don Quixote - Andreas Balog: Explaining Action and Explaining Social Phenomena - Rogers Hollingsworth/Karl H. Müller/Ellen Jane Hollingsworth/David M. Gear: Socio-economics and a New Scientific Paradigm - Tom R. Burns: Rule System Theory: An Overview - Ewa Roszkowska: Negotiation in the Context of Generalized Game Theory - Anna Gomolinska: Rough Rule-following by Social Agents - Hannu Nurmi: On the Art of Being Usefully Wrong: Lessons from Voting Paradoxes - Nora Machado: The Stabilization of Social Order: Social Cognitive Dissonance Theory Applied to Hospitals and Clinics - Beth Maina Ahlberg: Dare We Dream of a Future without Aids? Challenges and Opportunities for Responsive Social Science Research - Marcus Carson: Of Mind and Matter: Policy Paradigms and Institutional Design - Atle Midttun: Corporate (Social) Responsibility as an Arena for Partnered Governance: From the Business to the Public Policy Case - Svein S. Andersen: The Institutionalization of a Meta-order: Negotiating the Energy Charter Treaty - Hans L. Zetterberg: Opinion Polling on International Political Accords - Alberto Martinelli: The Political Systems of the United States and the European Union - Helena Flam: Germany and Migration - A European Case - Dusko Sekulic: Social Rule System Theory and the Disintegration of Yugoslavia - Christian Arnsperger/Philippe DeVillé: Could Homo Oeconomicus Become a Revolutionary? Probing the Irrevelance of Standard Economics.