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The Power of Beliefs
- Margaret Levi1
- Vol. 25:1-19 (Volume publication date May 2022) https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-polisci-051120-013517
- First published as a Review in Advance on November 15, 2021
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Abstract
My commitment to combining normative concerns with empirical social science led, perhaps a bit counterintuitively, to early adoption of rational choice political economy. However, it was a modified form of rational choice that takes into account ethical and societal concerns. This was the approach I applied to considerations of compliance and consent with government, what makes a trustworthy government, the formation of legitimating beliefs, and finally the construction of an expanded and inclusive community of fate as a building block for a new moral political economy. Listen to an interview with the author of this article online.
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