Game Theory For Political Scientists

Author : James D. Morrow
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2020-05-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780691213200

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Game Theory for Political Scientists by James D. Morrow Pdf

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.

Author : Nolan McCarty,Adam Meirowitz
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2014-10-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1107438632

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Political Game Theory by Nolan McCarty,Adam Meirowitz Pdf

Political Game Theory is a self-contained introduction to game theory and its applications to political science. The book presents choice theory, social choice theory, static and dynamic games of complete information, static and dynamic games of incomplete information, repeated games, bargaining theory, mechanism design and a mathematical appendix covering, logic, real analysis, calculus and probability theory. The methods employed have many applications in various disciplines including comparative politics, international relations and American politics. Political Game Theory is tailored to students without extensive backgrounds in mathematics, and traditional economics, however there are also many special sections that present technical material that will appeal to more advanced students. A large number of exercises are also provided to practice the skills and techniques discussed.

Author : Scott Gates,Brian D. Humes
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1997-02-07
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0472065645

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Games, Information, and Politics by Scott Gates,Brian D. Humes Pdf

DIVExplains how game theory can be used to explain political phenomena /div

Author : Emerson Niou,Peter C. Ordeshook
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2015-05-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317563112

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Strategy and Politics by Emerson Niou,Peter C. Ordeshook Pdf

Strategy and Politics: An Introduction to Game Theory is designed to introduce students with no background in formal theory to the application of game theory to modeling political processes. This accessible text covers the essential aspects of game theory while keeping the reader constantly in touch with why political science as a whole would benefit from considering this method. Examining the very phenomena that power political machineries—elections, legislative and committee processes, and international conflict, the book attempts to answer fundamental questions about their nature and function in a clear, accessible manner. Included at the end of each chapter is a set of exercises designed to allow students to practice the construction and analysis of political models. Although the text assumes only an elementary-level training in algebra, students who complete a course around this text will be equipped to read nearly all of the professional literature that makes use of game theoretic analysis.

Author : Steven J. Brams
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2013-01-17
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9780486143637

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Game Theory and Politics by Steven J. Brams Pdf

DIVMany illuminating and instructive examples of the applications of game theoretic models to problems in political science appear in this volume, which requires minimal mathematical background. 1975 edition. 24 figures. /div

Author : Kevin Gebser,Yoav Kaminski
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2022-05-31
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783031015458

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Essentials of Game Theory by Kevin Gebser,Yoav Kaminski Pdf

Game theory is the mathematical study of interaction among independent, self-interested agents. The audience for game theory has grown dramatically in recent years, and now spans disciplines as diverse as political science, biology, psychology, economics, linguistics, sociology, and computer science, among others. What has been missing is a relatively short introduction to the field covering the common basis that anyone with a professional interest in game theory is likely to require. Such a text would minimize notation, ruthlessly focus on essentials, and yet not sacrifice rigor. This Synthesis Lecture aims to fill this gap by providing a concise and accessible introduction to the field. It covers the main classes of games, their representations, and the main concepts used to analyze them.

Author : Luca Lambertini
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2011-03-31
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781136737602

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Game Theory in the Social Sciences by Luca Lambertini Pdf

Individuals, firms, governments and nations behave strategically, for good and bad. Over the last few decades, game theory has been constructed and progressively refined to become the major tool used by social scientists to understand, predict and regulate strategic interaction among agents who often have conflicting interests. In the surprisingly anodyne jargon of the theory, they ‘play games’. This book offers an introduction to the basic tools of game theory and an overview of a number of applications to real-world cases, covering the areas of economics, politics and international relations. Each chapter is accompanied by some suggestions about further reading.

Author : Nick Dyer-Witheford,Greig de Peuter
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 462 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2013-11-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781452942704

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Games of Empire by Nick Dyer-Witheford,Greig de Peuter Pdf

In the first decade of the twenty-first century, video games are an integral part of global media culture, rivaling Hollywood in revenue and influence. No longer confined to a subculture of adolescent males, video games today are played by adults around the world. At the same time, video games have become major sites of corporate exploitation and military recruitment. In Games of Empire, Nick Dyer-Witheford and Greig de Peuter offer a radical political critique of such video games and virtual environments as Second Life, World of Warcraft, and Grand Theft Auto, analyzing them as the exemplary media of Empire, the twenty-first-century hypercapitalist complex theorized by Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri. The authors trace the ascent of virtual gaming, assess its impact on creators and players alike, and delineate the relationships between games and reality, body and avatar, screen and street. Games of Empire forcefully connects video games to real-world concerns about globalization, militarism, and exploitation, from the horrors of African mines and Indian e-waste sites that underlie the entire industry, the role of labor in commercial game development, and the synergy between military simulation software and the battlefields of Iraq and Afghanistan exemplified by Full Spectrum Warrior to the substantial virtual economies surrounding World of Warcraft, the urban neoliberalism made playable in Grand Theft Auto, and the emergence of an alternative game culture through activist games and open-source game development. Rejecting both moral panic and glib enthusiasm, Games of Empire demonstrates how virtual games crystallize the cultural, political, and economic forces of global capital, while also providing a means of resisting them.

Author : Len Fisher
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2008-11-04
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780786726936

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Rock, Paper, Scissors by Len Fisher Pdf

Praised by Entertainment Weekly as “the man who put the fizz into physics,” Dr. Len Fisher turns his attention to the science of cooperation in his lively and thought-provoking book. Fisher shows how the modern science of game theory has helped biologists to understand the evolution of cooperation in nature, and investigates how we might apply those lessons to our own society. In a series of experiments that take him from the polite confines of an English dinner party to crowded supermarkets, congested Indian roads, and the wilds of outback Australia, not to mention baseball strategies and the intricacies of quantum mechanics, Fisher sheds light on the problem of global cooperation. The outcomes are sometimes hilarious, sometimes alarming, but always revealing. A witty romp through a serious science, Rock, Paper, Scissors will both teach and delight anyone interested in what it what it takes to get people to work together.

Author : E. Roy Weintraub
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0822312530

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Toward a History of Game Theory by E. Roy Weintraub Pdf

During the 1940s "game theory" emerged from the fields of mathematics and economics to provide a revolutionary new method of analysis. Today game theory provides a language for discussing conflict and cooperation not only for economists, but also for business analysts, sociologists, war planners, international relations theorists, and evolutionary biologists. Toward a History of Game Theory offers the first history of the development, reception, and dissemination of this crucial theory. Drawing on interviews with original members of the game theory community and on the Morgenstern diaries, the first section of the book examines early work in game theory. It focuses on the groundbreaking role of the von Neumann-Morgenstern collaborative work, The Theory of Games and Economic Behavior (1944). The second section recounts the reception of this new theory, revealing just how game theory made its way into the literatures of the time and thus became known among relevant communities of scholars. The contributors explore how game theory became a wedge in opening up the social sciences to mathematical tools and use the personal recollections of scholars who taught at Michigan and Princeton in the late 1940s to show why the theory captivated those practitioners now considered to be "giants" in the field. The final section traces the flow of the ideas of game theory into political science, operations research, and experimental economics. Contributors. Mary Ann Dimand, Robert W. Dimand, Robert J. Leonard, Philip Mirowski, Angela M. O'Rand, Howard Raiffa, Urs Rellstab, Robin E. Rider, William H. Riker, Andrew Schotter, Martin Shubik, Vernon L. Smith

Author : Nolan McCarty,Adam Meirowitz
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 7 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2007-01-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781139461818

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Political Game Theory by Nolan McCarty,Adam Meirowitz Pdf

Political Game Theory is a self-contained introduction to game theory and its applications to political science. The book presents choice theory, social choice theory, static and dynamic games of complete information, static and dynamic games of incomplete information, repeated games, bargaining theory, mechanism design and a mathematical appendix covering, logic, real analysis, calculus and probability theory. The methods employed have many applications in various disciplines including comparative politics, international relations and American politics. Political Game Theory is tailored to students without extensive backgrounds in mathematics, and traditional economics, however there are also many special sections that present technical material that will appeal to more advanced students. A large number of exercises are also provided to practice the skills and techniques discussed.

Author : Peter C. Ordeshook
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 052131593X

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Game theory and political theory by Peter C. Ordeshook Pdf

Author : Peter C. Ordeshook
Publisher : New York University Press
Page : 648 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : UOM:39015002190349

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Game Theory and Political Science by Peter C. Ordeshook Pdf

Author : Michael Suk-Young Chwe
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2014-03-23
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780691162447

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Jane Austen, Game Theorist by Michael Suk-Young Chwe Pdf

How the works of Jane Austen show that game theory is present in all human behavior Game theory—the study of how people make choices while interacting with others—is one of the most popular technical approaches in social science today. But as Michael Chwe reveals in his insightful new book, Jane Austen explored game theory's core ideas in her six novels roughly two hundred years ago—over a century before its mathematical development during the Cold War. Jane Austen, Game Theorist shows how this beloved writer theorized choice and preferences, prized strategic thinking, and analyzed why superiors are often strategically clueless about inferiors. Exploring a diverse range of literature and folktales, this book illustrates the wide relevance of game theory and how, fundamentally, we are all strategic thinkers.

Author : John E. Roemer
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2019-04-23
Category : Altruism
ISBN : 9780300233339

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How We Cooperate by John E. Roemer Pdf

A new theory of how and why we cooperate, drawing from economics, political theory, and philosophy to challenge the conventional wisdom of game theory Game theory explains competitive behavior by working from the premise that people are self-interested. People don't just compete, however; they also cooperate. John Roemer argues that attempts by orthodox game theorists to account for cooperation leave much to be desired. Unlike competing players, cooperating players take those actions that they would like others to take--which Roemer calls "Kantian optimization." Through rigorous reasoning and modeling, Roemer demonstrates a simpler theory of cooperative behavior than the standard model provides.