logging in or signing up Rational Actor Model mch.theology Download Post to : URL : Related Presentations : Share Add to Flag Embed Email Send to Blogs and Networks Add to Channel Uploaded from authorPOINT lite Insert YouTube videos in PowerPont slides with aS Desktop Copy embed code: (To copy code, click on the text box) Embed: URL: Thumbnail: WordPress Embed Customize Embed The presentation is successfully added In Your Favorites. Views: 418 Category: Education License: All Rights Reserved Like it (0) Dislike it (0) Added: December 15, 2010 This Presentation is Public Favorites: 0 Presentation Description No description available. Comments Posting comment... Premium member Presentation Transcript Rational Actor Model : Rational Actor Model Based on lecture of Professor Branislav L. Slantchev, Dept of Political Science University of California, San Diego April, 2005 Definition : Definition systematic explains foreign policy choices in international relations in terms of rational, i.e., purposeful behavior designed to achieve outcomes consistent with goals. Rational ≠ Moral : Rational ≠ Moral purposeful behavior designed to achieve outcomes consistent with goals = “instrumental rationality” actors are able to relate means to ends, and they choose the means that help them obtain the ends they like most Rational ≠ Moral : Rational ≠ Moral Rational ≠ Moral : Rational ≠ Moral Can blowing yourself up be “rational?” Acts, however incomprehensible to us, in fact can relate means to ends in a purposeful way. Idealized sequence: : Idealized sequence: Maximizing Utility: Optimal Choice & Optimal Behavior : Maximizing Utility: Optimal Choice & Optimal Behavior each outcome is associated with some number, called utility or payoff, then the decision maker is choosing the option that yields the highest payoff, so she is maximizing utility. Sometimes choices don’t work out … : Sometimes choices don’t work out … Uncertainty : Uncertainty Uncertainty: Environmental and Strategic : Uncertainty: Environmental and Strategic Actors: 2 attributes : Actors: 2 attributes Actors’ Preferences and Beliefs : Actors’ Preferences and Beliefs The Environment : The Environment Strategic Interaction : Strategic Interaction = Each actor tries to further goals, knowing other actors are doing the same. International politics is all about interdependent decision-making. Strategic Interaction : Strategic Interaction extremely complicated Game Theory : Game Theory mathematical tools for analyzing decision making in various environments Game Theory : Game Theory huge impact on the study of economics, political science, biology, sociology and anthropology Game Theory : Game Theory Rational Actor Model, in Review … : Rational Actor Model, in Review … purposeful behavior; instrumental rationality optimal choice; expected utility; payoff mistakes, deliberate risks, unintended consequences environmental / strategic uncertainty actor’s preference and beliefs environment – actions and information structure strategic interaction, game theory What moves will YOU choose? : What moves will YOU choose? You do not have the permission to view this presentation. In order to view it, please contact the author of the presentation.
Rational Actor Model mch.theology Download Post to : URL : Related Presentations : Share Add to Flag Embed Email Send to Blogs and Networks Add to Channel Uploaded from authorPOINT lite Insert YouTube videos in PowerPont slides with aS Desktop Copy embed code: (To copy code, click on the text box) Embed: URL: Thumbnail: WordPress Embed Customize Embed The presentation is successfully added In Your Favorites. Views: 418 Category: Education License: All Rights Reserved Like it (0) Dislike it (0) Added: December 15, 2010 This Presentation is Public Favorites: 0 Presentation Description No description available. Comments Posting comment... Premium member Presentation Transcript Rational Actor Model : Rational Actor Model Based on lecture of Professor Branislav L. Slantchev, Dept of Political Science University of California, San Diego April, 2005 Definition : Definition systematic explains foreign policy choices in international relations in terms of rational, i.e., purposeful behavior designed to achieve outcomes consistent with goals. Rational ≠ Moral : Rational ≠ Moral purposeful behavior designed to achieve outcomes consistent with goals = “instrumental rationality” actors are able to relate means to ends, and they choose the means that help them obtain the ends they like most Rational ≠ Moral : Rational ≠ Moral Rational ≠ Moral : Rational ≠ Moral Can blowing yourself up be “rational?” Acts, however incomprehensible to us, in fact can relate means to ends in a purposeful way. Idealized sequence: : Idealized sequence: Maximizing Utility: Optimal Choice & Optimal Behavior : Maximizing Utility: Optimal Choice & Optimal Behavior each outcome is associated with some number, called utility or payoff, then the decision maker is choosing the option that yields the highest payoff, so she is maximizing utility. Sometimes choices don’t work out … : Sometimes choices don’t work out … Uncertainty : Uncertainty Uncertainty: Environmental and Strategic : Uncertainty: Environmental and Strategic Actors: 2 attributes : Actors: 2 attributes Actors’ Preferences and Beliefs : Actors’ Preferences and Beliefs The Environment : The Environment Strategic Interaction : Strategic Interaction = Each actor tries to further goals, knowing other actors are doing the same. International politics is all about interdependent decision-making. Strategic Interaction : Strategic Interaction extremely complicated Game Theory : Game Theory mathematical tools for analyzing decision making in various environments Game Theory : Game Theory huge impact on the study of economics, political science, biology, sociology and anthropology Game Theory : Game Theory Rational Actor Model, in Review … : Rational Actor Model, in Review … purposeful behavior; instrumental rationality optimal choice; expected utility; payoff mistakes, deliberate risks, unintended consequences environmental / strategic uncertainty actor’s preference and beliefs environment – actions and information structure strategic interaction, game theory What moves will YOU choose? : What moves will YOU choose?