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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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NestedÂ
Games
and
Rationality
17
(Converse
and
Pierce
1986;
Rochon
and
Pierce
1985)
indicates
several
advantages
ofÂ
the
approach:
theoretical
parsimony,
con-
sistency
with
otherÂ
existingÂ
theories,
and
descriptiveÂ
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performance
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the
nestedÂ
gamesÂ
approach
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case
studyÂ
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readers
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the
majorÂ
point:
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cases,Â
whichÂ
range
from
coalitionÂ
politics
to
partyÂ
poli-
tics
and
from
questions
of
ideology
to
questions
of
institution
building,
are
applications
ofÂ
the
same
theory.
The
essentialÂ
goal
of
thisÂ
book
isÂ
to
demonstrateÂ
thatÂ
politicalÂ
context
and
political
institutionsÂ
matter
in
predictableÂ
ways,
to
explain
why
suchÂ
reg-
ularities
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to
provide
a
systematic
wayÂ
to
dealÂ
with
complicatedÂ
politicalÂ
phenomena.
The
emphasis
isÂ
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the
word
systematic
because
I
hope
the
book
makesÂ
thisÂ
particularÂ
method
of
studyÂ
widelyÂ
accessible.Â
Making
the
production
of
knowledge
accessible
is,Â
I
believe,
an
importantÂ
goal
forÂ
any
scientific
enter-
prise.
Table of contents
- Contents
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- Acknowledgments
- 1. Nested Games and Rationality
- 2. In Defense of the Rational-Choice Approach
- 3. Two-Person Games with Variable Payoffs
- 4. Games with Variable Rules, or the Politics of Institutional Change
- 5. Why Do British Labour Party Activists Commit Political Suicide?
- 6. A Rational-Choice Approach to Consociationalism
- 7. The Cohesion of French Electoral Coalitions
- 8. Conclusions
- Bibliography
- Index