ABSTRACT
Starting from Elster's (1984) 'two-step' model of human action, the preceding chapter argued that neither those filters embodied in actors' own action-selection mechanisms nor those represented by environmental constraint should be conceived of as given and all-determining. However, Chapter 2 also admitted that an adequate theory of strategic choice would have to ground itself on accounts of both human actionselection processes and environments each capable of supporting nondeterminate outcomes. Strategic decision-makers should exercise at least some control over themselves and their surroundings. It will be the chief argument of this chapter that existing accounts of strategic choice have failed quite to satisfy these two criteria.
