It denotes the positive or negative evaluations individuals attach to possible outcomes of their actions.

It refer to perceived cause-effect relations, including the perceived likelihood with which an individual’s actions will result in different possible outcomes.

It define the limits to the set of feasible actions.

All actions can be ranked in a complete partial ordering of preference (indifference between two (2) or more is possible). In other words, all pairs of actions can be compared with each other.

Assumes that the individual’s choices are internally consistent

Used to analyze individuals’ responses to relatively small changes in income and prices

Given these assumptions, it is possible to show that people are able to rank in order all possible situations from least desirable to most

It defines institutions much more broadly than political scientists or economists do and it includes also the symbol systems, cognitive scripts, and moral templates; hence, it divides institutions and culture.

Proponents of this theory argue that political actors’ rational choices are constrained or bounded in rationality.

It is a Social Science Method that uses institutions to find sequences of social, political, economic behavior, and change across time. It is a comparative approach to the study of all aspects of human organizations and does so by relying heavily on cases studies.

It is a new institutionalist approach that looks at how gender norms operate within institutions and how institutional processes construct and maintain gender power dynamics

It is concerned with the way in which institutions create meaning for individuals, providing important theoretical building blocks for Normative Institutionalism within Political Science

These refer to any profit, voluntary citizen’s groups which are organized on a local, national, or international level. They are task-oriented and driven by people with a common interest.

As stated in Section 15 of the Philippine Constitution of 1987, they are independent, bona fide associations of citizens with demonstrated capacity to promote the public interest and with identifiable leadership, membership, and structure.

They represent community-based organizations operating as shared workspace, and/or shared experience or concerns. Within community-based organizations, there are many variations in terms of size and organizational structure.

These are organizations set up to finance or complete projects, usually or a non-profit organization such as a school or a church.

The author of Leviathan

His major contribution was perhaps the ability for having extended the realm of microeconomics investigation to a broad extent of human behavior and interactions such as discrimination, crime, and punishment, human capital, families, and organ market.

Was credited for establishing Rational Choice Theory in sociology when he formulated a basic framework of exchange theory which was grounded on assumptions drawn from behaviorist psychology.