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Associate Professor of Government Ashutosh Varshney said that he thought that it was not a question of which approach was better but rather which approach was better for a particular query...
...Rational choice is excellent at solving deductive puzzles. But rational choice has a lot of trouble explaining mass mobilization," says Varshney, who wrote his early book with a rational choice focus and a more recent work which seeks to generalize from largely empirical data about India...
...article on this debate in the American Political Science Association Comparative Politics' summer newsletter, Varshney acknowledges the contributions of rational choice to the study of economics and institutions in comparative politics but very pointedly states the limits of rational choice explanations...
...Just as it is hard to explain--given rational calculations of cost and benefit, why people vote--it is also hard to understand--with tools of rational choice--why so many people in the world demonstrate ethnic fervor or embrace nationalism," Varshney writes...
According to Varshney, the importance of Sen's scholarship lies with its originality. "[Sen] nearly single handedly broadened economic development to include social considerations," he said...