Karl‐Dieter Opp

University of Washington — United States

Social Sciences · Social Sciences

39h-index7.0kcitations312works1.52yr avg
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Research Topics

Sociology and Education Studies(48), Electoral Systems and Political Participation(31), Public Administration and Political Analysis(28), Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies(23), German Social Sciences and History(23)

Publications312 total

How to integrate theories of norm emergence. The example of James S. Coleman’s and Robert C. Ellickson’s theories
Rationality and Society·2025Open Access
The recent turn in analytical sociology: The dismissal of general theories, mental states, and analytic philosophy – and the old issue of mechanism explanations
Social Science Information·2024· 3 citedOpen Access
The micro–macro link
Edward Elgar Publishing eBooks·2023· 1 cited
Methodological Individualism and Micro–Macro Modeling
2023· 3 cited
Rational Choice Theory and Social Movements
The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Social and Political Movements·2022· 1 cited
The Rationality Of Political Protest: A Comparative Analysis Of Rational Choice Theory
Medical Entomology and Zoology·2021· 106 citedOpen Access
When Do People Follow the Behavior of Others? The Effects of Descriptive and Injunctive Norms, and the Werther Effect
2021· 1 cited
Rational Choice Theory and Methodological Individualism
Cambridge University Press eBooks·2020· 13 cited
What a Theory of Social Norms and Institutions Should Look Like
Analyse & Kritik·2020
3. Rational Choice Theory, the Model of Frame Selection and Other Dual-Process Theories. A Critical Comparison
2020· 3 citedOpen Access
General strain theory
2020
Analytical Criminology
2020
Self-control theory
2020· 4 cited
Social disorganization, collective efficacy, and crime
2020
Situational action theory
2020
Analytical Criminology
2020· 18 cited
The origin and working of the Sicilian Mafia – a comparison of a rational choice explanation with criminological theories
2020
The explanation of individual behavior in the social context
2020
The concept of crime, the definition of “theory,” and the characteristics of a good theory
2020· 1 cited
Integrating rational choice theory and criminological theories – some examples
2020
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Edward N. Muller(3), Steven E. Finkel(3), Peter Hartmann(3), Wolfgang Roehl(2), Petra Hartmann(2), Michael Hechter(2), Christiane Gern(1), Guillermina Jasso(1), Michael Beck(1), David Knoke(1), Reinhard Wippler(1), Hermann Brandstätter(1), Peter Voß(1), Hans J. Hummell(1), Bernhard Kittel(1), Lewis A. Coser(1), Stan Humphries(1), George Klosko(1), Käte Burow-Auffarth(1), Thomazine von Witzleben(1)