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Rationality and Society

Rationality and Society


eISSN: 14617358 | ISSN: 10434631 | Current volume: 36 | Current issue: 3 Frequency: Quarterly
Rationality & Society is a peer-reviewed journal which focuses on the contributions of rational-action based theory to a broad range of disciplines studying human societies, and on the questions and controversies surrounding this approach.

Authors are encouraged to submit original papers dealing with social-science theory and empirical social-science research based on the rational-action paradigm, as well as work challenging or further developing this approach. Qualitative and quantitative approaches as well as theoretical and empirical works are welcome.

In particular, the editors encourage contributions that relate rational-action based research to pressing societal challenges, such as climate-change, societal polarization, or migration and contributions linking it to new approaches emerging from, e.g., computational social science, complexity science, cognitive science, neuroscience, or genetics.

Rationality & Society is committed to a swift review process. Editorial first decisions (reject or review) are usually made within two weeks after initial submission. The median decision time for peer-reviewed submissions is 60 days.

Rationality & Society is a peer-reviewed journal which focuses on the contributions of rational-action based theory to a broad range of disciplines studying human societies, and on the questions and controversies surrounding this approach. Read more about the aims, scope and envisaged future developments of Rationality & Society in an editorial statement by the current editor-in-chief.

Why Choose Rationality and Society?

Against the background of ever-greater specialization and fragmentation among scientific fields, the rational action paradigm offers an inter-lingua of the social sciences connecting disciplines such as economics, sociology, political science, historical sciences, cognitive psychology, moral philosophy or law. Contributions to Rationality and Society demonstrate the use of the rational action paradigm for developing theoretically consistent, analytically precise, empirically refutable, and practically useful theories of societal phenomena studied in a multitude of disciplines.

Contributions, Societal Challenges and Scientific Controversy

Contributions to Rationality and Society continue to show the power of the rational action approach for studying empirical phenomena linked to pressing societal problems, as varied as social and educational inequality, social movements, xenophobia, populism, voter turnout, corruption, wage bargaining, migration, small- and large-scale cooperation problems including climate change — all from a unifying perspective. Work appearing in this journal also continues to add significantly to the further development of the rationality paradigm itself and to the scholarly discussion of its merits and limitations. Fundamental theoretical work as well as empirical studies appear in this journal, applying, elaborating upon or testing a range of variations, extensions, criticisms, and refinements of the rational choice model of human behavior.

Social Research and Theory

Rationality and Society is an international journal focusing on the latest social research and theory using the rational action paradigm as its foundation. The journal publishes scholarly articles that further this research and theory, but its pages are also open to work that challenges this approach.

Rationality and Society contains purely theoretical work, as well as qualitative and quantitative empirical research, and policy analysis.

Discussion and Debate

Rationality and Society actively solicits comments and criticism on papers published in its own pages. The Forum is a section which promotes open and critical debate. The editors welcome scholarly discourse as a contribution to the intellectual vitality and further development of rational action-based theory and research across the social sciences.

Editor
Andreas Flache University of Groningen, Netherlands
Founding Editor
James S. Coleman University of Chicago, IL, USA
Managing Editor
Jonas Stein University of Groningen, Netherlands
Associate Editors
Mary C. Brinton Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA
Robert H. Frank Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA
Douglas D. Heckathorn Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA
Victor G. Nee Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA
Editorial Board
Delia Baldassari New York University, USA
Carlo Barone Science Po, France
Stephen Benard Indiana University Bloomington, USA
Steven J. Brams New York University, USA
Ronald S. Burt University of Chicago, USA
Jules L Coleman Yale University, USA
Rense Corten Utrecht University, Netherlands
Jacob Dijkstra University of Groningen, Netherlands
Emily Erikson Yale University, USA
Bruno S. Frey Zeppelin University, Germany
Vincenz Frey University of Groningen, Netherlands
Diego Gambetta Collegio Carlo Alberto, Italy
Thomas Gautschi University of Mannheim, Germany
Ashley Harrell Duke University, USA
Michael Hechter Arizona State University, USA
Peter Hedström Institute for Analytical Sociology, Sweden
Christine Horne Washington State University, USA
Guillermina Jasso New York University, USA
Timur Kuran Duke University, USA
Siegwart Lindenberg University of Groningen, Netherlands
Freda B. Lynn University of Iowa, USA
Michael W. Macy Cornell University, USA
Peter V. Marsden Harvard University, USA
Stephen L. Morgan Johns Hopkins University, USA
Karl-Dieter Opp University of Leipzig, Germany
Trond Petersen University of California, USA
Brent Simpson University of South Carolina, USA
Frans N. Stokman University of Groningen, Netherlands
Piotr Swistak University of Maryland at College Park, USA
Milena Tsvetkova London School of Economics, United Kingdom
Rafael Wittek University of Groningen, Netherlands
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