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Rational Politics: Decisions, Games, and Strategy
Rational Decisions, Games, and Strategy focuses on the unified presentation of politics as a rational human activity, including the paradox of voting and proportional representation.
The publication first offers information on the study of rational politics, political intrigue in the Bible, and candidate strategies. Topics include the factor of timing in presidential primaries, rational positions in a multicandidate race, primacy of issues and their spatial representation, and politics in the story of Esther.
The text then elaborates on voting paradoxes and the problems of representation, voting power, and threats and deterrence. Discussions focus on a sequential view of the Cuban missile crisis, use of threat power in Poland, power anomalies in the European Community Council of Ministers, probability of the paradox of voting, empirical examples of the paradox of voting, and problems in achieving proportional representation.
The book is a valuable reference for researchers interested in rational politics.
The publication first offers information on the study of rational politics, political intrigue in the Bible, and candidate strategies. Topics include the factor of timing in presidential primaries, rational positions in a multicandidate race, primacy of issues and their spatial representation, and politics in the story of Esther.
The text then elaborates on voting paradoxes and the problems of representation, voting power, and threats and deterrence. Discussions focus on a sequential view of the Cuban missile crisis, use of threat power in Poland, power anomalies in the European Community Council of Ministers, probability of the paradox of voting, empirical examples of the paradox of voting, and problems in achieving proportional representation.
The book is a valuable reference for researchers interested in rational politics.
248 pages, Paperback
First published October 1, 1989
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June 5, 2022
Brams is a master at de-mystifying the ordeal that is game theory, applied within the context of politics, over a ''field'' of rationality. Contains an introduction to his theory of moves, great examples from a diverse set of political situations, in a straight forward fashion, with enough technical details to remain above a simple popular text aimed at the layman, whilst being clear enough to be picked up by a layman with an interest in foreign relation, economics and conflict resolution.
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