Politics, Organizations, and Choice: Applications of an Equilibrium Model.

A simple model of consumer behavior is used to structure data on environmental change, organizational mobility, and satisfaction taken from studies of Turkish and French élites.¹ Despite the widely different subject matter of the two data sets, a microeconomic formulation proved conceptually fruitful. The consumer-behavior paradigm is forwarded as a means of integrating findings from diverse areas of interest; some of the limitations of the approach are also discussed. The consumer-behavior model promises to be particularly useful in relating economic, political, and organizational change to individual behavior. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]