Nested Games
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Nested Games

Rational Choice in Comparative Politics

  1. 292 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Nested Games

Rational Choice in Comparative Politics

About this book

Clearly written and easily understood by the nonspecialist, Nested Games provides a systematic, empirically accurate, and theoretically coherent account of apparently irrational political actions.

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Information

NestedĀ 
Games
and
Rationality
17
(Converse
and
Pierce
1986;
Rochon
and
Pierce
1985)
indicates
several
advantages
ofĀ 
the
approach:
theoretical
parsimony,
con-
sistency
with
otherĀ 
existingĀ 
theories,
and
descriptiveĀ 
accuracy.
The
performance
ofĀ 
the
nestedĀ 
gamesĀ 
approach
in
eachĀ 
case
studyĀ 
should
not
distractĀ 
readers
from
the
majorĀ 
point:
allĀ 
the
empirical
cases,Ā 
whichĀ 
range
from
coalitionĀ 
politics
to
partyĀ 
poli-
tics
and
from
questions
of
ideology
to
questions
of
institution
building,
are
applications
ofĀ 
the
same
theory.
The
essentialĀ 
goal
of
thisĀ 
book
isĀ 
to
demonstrateĀ 
thatĀ 
politicalĀ 
context
and
political
institutionsĀ 
matter
in
predictableĀ 
ways,
to
explain
why
suchĀ 
reg-
ularities
occur,
andĀ 
to
provide
a
systematic
wayĀ 
to
dealĀ 
with
complicatedĀ 
politicalĀ 
phenomena.
The
emphasis
isĀ 
onĀ 
the
word
systematic
because
I
hope
the
book
makesĀ 
thisĀ 
particularĀ 
method
of
studyĀ 
widelyĀ 
accessible.Ā 
Making
the
production
of
knowledge
accessible
is,Ā 
I
believe,
an
importantĀ 
goal
forĀ 
any
scientific
enter-
prise.

Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. List of Figures
  3. List of Tables
  4. Acknowledgments
  5. 1. Nested Games and Rationality
  6. 2. In Defense of the Rational-Choice Approach
  7. 3. Two-Person Games with Variable Payoffs
  8. 4. Games with Variable Rules, or the Politics of Institutional Change
  9. 5. Why Do British Labour Party Activists Commit Political Suicide?
  10. 6. A Rational-Choice Approach to Consociationalism
  11. 7. The Cohesion of French Electoral Coalitions
  12. 8. Conclusions
  13. Bibliography
  14. Index