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Foundations for Cooperation in Social Dilemmas
Ahn, Toh-Kyeong - 2001
"Institutional approaches to social dilemmas have so far focused on how to create incentive structures that channel individuals' behavior into socially desirable outcomes assuming that everyone is selfish. However, the presumption of universal selfishness is not only empirically invalid but may...
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Incorporating Motivational Heterogeneity into Game Theoretic Models of Collective Action
Ahn, Toh-Kyeong; Ostrom, Elinor; Walker, James M. - 2002
Subsequently published as:"Incorporating Motivational Heterogeneity into Game Theoretic Models of Collective Action." Public Choice, 117, 2003, 295-315."Understanding cooperation in the context of social dilemma games is fundamental to understanding how alternative institutional arrangements may...
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How theory is used and articulated in qualitative research: Development of a new typology
Bradbury-Jones, Caroline; Taylor, Julie; Herber, Oliver - In: Social Science & Medicine 120 (2014) C, pp. 135-141
There is a long tradition within qualitative research of theory being central and of critical importance. Qualitative … research theory often equates with the methodologies used but this is a complex relationship, plagued by lack of consensus … among scholars regarding how theory and methodology are related. This article furthers the debates on how theories are used …
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