Game Theory for Political Scientists
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Game Theory for Political Scientists

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Game Theory for Political Scientists

About this book

Game theory is the mathematical analysis of strategic interaction. In the fifty years since the appearance of von Neumann and Morgenstern's classic Theory of Games and Economic Behavior (Princeton, 1944), game theory has been widely applied to problems in economics. Until recently, however, its usefulness in political science has been underappreciated, in part because of the technical difficulty of the methods developed by economists. James Morrow's book is the first to provide a standard text adapting contemporary game theory to political analysis. It uses a minimum of mathematics to teach the essentials of game theory and contains problems and their solutions suitable for advanced undergraduate and graduate students in all branches of political science.


Morrow begins with classical utility and game theory and ends with current research on repeated games and games of incomplete information. The book focuses on noncooperative game theory and its application to international relations, political economy, and American and comparative politics. Special attention is given to models of four topics: bargaining, legislative voting rules, voting in mass elections, and deterrence. An appendix reviews relevant mathematical techniques. Brief bibliographic essays at the end of each chapter suggest further readings, graded according to difficulty. This rigorous but accessible introduction to game theory will be of use not only to political scientists but also to psychologists, sociologists, and others in the social sciences.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Half-title Page
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Dedication Page
  6. Contents
  7. List of Figures and Tables
  8. Preface and Acknowledgments
  9. Chapter 1: Overview
  10. Chapter 2: Utility Theory
  11. Chapter 3: Specifying a Game
  12. Chapter 4: Classical Game Theory
  13. Chapter 5: Solving Extensive-Form Games: Backwards Induction and Subgame Perfection
  14. Chapter 6: Beliefs and Perfect Bayesian Equilibria
  15. Chapter 7: More on Noncooperative Equilibrium: Perfect and Sequential Equilibria
  16. Chapter 8: Games of Limited Information and Restrictions on Beliefs
  17. Chapter 9: Repeated Games
  18. Chapter 10: Conclusion: Where Do We Go from Here?
  19. Appendix 1: Basic Mathematical Knowledge
  20. Appendix 2: Answers to Selected Problems
  21. Notes
  22. Glossary of Terms in Game Theory
  23. Bibliography
  24. Index