Nolan McCarty (New Jersey Princeton University), Adam Meirowitz (New Jersey Princeton University)

Political Game Theory

An Introduction

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Produktbeschreibung

Political Game Theory is a self-contained introduction to game theory and its applications to political science. The methods employed have many applications in various disciplines including comparative politics, international relations and American politics. A large number of exercises are also provided to practice the skills and techniques discussed.

Produktdetails

• Analytical Methods for Social Research
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 446
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Januar 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 31mm
• Gewicht: 824g
• ISBN-13: 9780521841078
• ISBN-10: 0521841070
• Artikelnr.: 22182735

Autorenporträt

Nolan McCarty is Associate Dean and Professor of Politics and Public Affairs at the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton University. His recent publications include Polarized America: The Dance of Ideology and Unequal Riches (2006 with Keith Poole and Howard Rosenthal), The Realignment of National Politics and the Income Distribution (1997 with Keith Poole and Howard Rosenthal), as well as many articles in periodicals such as the American Political Science Review and the American Journal of Political Science.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction
2. The theory of choice
3. Choice under uncertainty
4. Social choice theory
5. Games in the normal form
6. Bayesian games in the normal form
7. Extensive form games
8. Dynamic games of incomplete information
9. Repeated games
10. Bargaining theory
11. Mechanism design and agency theory
12. Mathematical appendix.