Revolutionaries, despots, and rationality

Rationality and Society

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 283-299

  Olsson Yaouzis, Nicolas ^a  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Free rider problems; Rational choice theory; Revolutions

Indexed keywords

EID: 77954705104     PISSN: 10434631     EISSN: 14617358     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1043463110374497     Document Type: Article

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