DISKUSSION: Uber die Rationalitat hinaus: fur eine interpretative und reflexive Wissenschaft. Reaktion auf Andreas Dur
In: Osterreichische Zeitschrift fur Politikwissenschaft, Issue 3, p. 315-322
Interpretive Political Science has been seen as one of the major critiques against Rational Choice Theory. This review article touches upon the main cleavage between both approaches. It goes beyond the question of rationality as such and asks, instead, what makes actions being understood as 'rational', highlighting by that the socio-cultural context of rationality and its linkage to power. These two elements can be seen as the core of interpretive approaches and they lead us, at the same time, to divergent understandings of the scientific practice that Rational Choice Theory and Interpretive Political Science respectively have. These understandings can be seen as the major difference between both paradigms. Adapted from the source document.
