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Author : George Tsebelis
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1991-08-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780520911970
Clearly written and easily understood by the nonspecialist, Nested Games provides a systematic, empirically accurate, and theoretically coherent account of apparently irrational political actions.
Author : Rainer Thiel
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2010-10-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783531926063
Nested Games of External Democracy Promotion develops a game theoretic model that explains how an external actor influences the strategic interaction between an authoritarian regime and a democratic opposition. In a multiple arena approach, the confrontation between regime and opposition on the domestic level is nested inside a game on the international level, at which the regime is simultaneously entangled with a democracy promotion actor. As a case study, the book formally reconstructs how United States democracy assistance influenced the Polish liberalization process between 1980 and 1989. The process tracing of its causal mechanisms is extensive and builds on data previously not recorded. With regard to Cold War history, new light is brought into U.S. American policies and strategies behind the Iron Curtain.
Author : Agnès Alexandre-Collier,Pauline Schnapper,Simon Usherwood
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 167 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2022-06-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000596922
This book offers a novel perspective on the UK’s withdrawal from the European Union, providing insights to the ways in that domestic concerns interact with European policy to produce sometimes counter-intuitive outcomes. The 2016 decision by the United Kingdom to withdraw from the European Union was a seminal one for both political parties in the UK. This innovative volume considers the extent to which the interrelation between the national and the European arenas produced significant opportunities for reshaping political action. The nesting of these two levels matters, firstly in allowing for the mobilisation of domestic actors around European issues and secondly, in explaining why seemingly unimportant or counter-productive actions are taken. The tensions this generated reached a critical juncture with the referendum, a rupture that highlights the extent to which a nominally second-order vote can have fundamental impacts on the first order’s preferences. Bringing together scholars from a wide range of approaches and covering various aspects of the Brexit process, this book offers a significant contribution to improving our understanding of an event that will shape British and European politics for a generation. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of the Journal of Contemporary European Studies.
Author : Wallace Jackson
Publisher : Apress
Page : 649 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2017-11-14
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781484209738
Use Java 9 and JavaFX 9 to write 3D games for the latest consumer electronics devices. Written by open source gaming expert Wallace Jackson, this book uses Java 9 and NetBeans 9 to add leading-edge features, such as 3D, textures, animation, digital audio, and digital image compositing to your games. Along the way you’ll learn about game design, including game design concepts, genres, engines, and UI design techniques. To completely master Java 3D game creation, you will combine this knowledge with a number of JavaFX 9 topics, such as scene graph hierarchy; 3D scene configuration; 3D model design and primitives; model shader creation; and 3D game animation creation. With these skills you will be able to take your 3D Java games to the next level. The final section of Pro Java 9 Games Development puts the final polish on your abilities. You’ll see how to add AI logic for random content selection methods; harness a professional scoring engine; and player-proof your event handling. After reading Pro Java 9 Games Development, you will come away with enough 3D expertise to design, develop, and build your own professional Java 9 games, using JavaFX 9 and the latest new media assets. What You’ll Learn Design and build professional 3D Java 9 games, using NetBeans 9, Java 9, and JavaFX 9 Integrate new media assets, such as digital imagery and digital audio Integrate the new JavaFX 9 multimedia engine API Create an interactive 3D board game, modeled, textured, and animated using JavaFX Optimize game assets for distribution, and learn how to use the Java 9 module system Who This Book Is For Experienced Java developers who may have some prior game development experience. This book can be for experienced game developers new to Java programming.
Author : Bas?Ar
Publisher : Academic Press
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1982-02-02
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9780080956664
Dynamic Noncooperative Game Theory
Author : Wallace Jackson
Publisher : Apress
Page : 475 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2014-12-04
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781484204153
Beginning Java 8 Games Development, written by Java expert and author Wallace Jackson, teaches you the fundamentals of building a highly illustrative game using the Java 8 programming language. In this book, you'll employ open source software as tools to help you quickly and efficiently build your Java game applications. You'll learn how to utilize vector and bit-wise graphics; create sprites and sprite animations; handle events; process inputs; create and insert multimedia and audio files; and more. Furthermore, you'll learn about JavaFX 8, now integrated into Java 8 and which gives you additional APIs that will make your game application more fun and dynamic as well as give it a smaller foot-print; so, your game application can run on your PC, mobile and embedded devices. After reading and using this tutorial, you'll come away with a cool Java-based 2D game application template that you can re-use and apply to your own game making ambitions or for fun.
Author : Jaap van den Herik,H. Jaap van den Herik,Pieter Spronck
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2010-05-20
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783642129926
This volume constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the Twelfth Advances in Computer Games Conference, ACG 2009, held in Pamplona, Spain, in May 2009. The 20 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 41 submissions for inclusion in the book. The topics addressed contain Monte-Carlo tree search, Bayesian modeling, selective search, brute force, conflict resolution, solving games, optimization, concept discovery, incongruity theory, and data assurance.
Author : Management Association, Information Resources
Publisher : IGI Global
Page : 399 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2018-06-04
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781522556503
Fog computing is rapidly expanding in its applications and capabilities through various parts of society. Utilizing different types of virtualization technologies can push this branch of computing to even greater heights. Fog Computing: Breakthroughs in Research and Practice contains a compendium of the latest academic material on the evolving theory and practice related to fog computing. Including innovative studies on distributed fog computing environments, programming models, and access control mechanisms, this publication is an ideal source for programmers, IT professionals, students, researchers, and engineers.
Author : Christopher J. Coyne
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 080475439X
Post-conflict reconstruction is one of the most pressing political issues today. This book uses economics to analyze critically the incentives and constraints faced by various actors involved in reconstruction efforts. Through this analysis, the book will aid in understanding why some reconstructions are more successful than others.
Author : Philip D’Agati
Publisher : Springer
Page : 123 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2013-06-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781137360250
The Soviet boycott of the 1984 Olympic Games is explained as the result of a complex series of events and policies that culminated in a strategic decision to not participate in Los Angeles. Using IR framework, D'Agati developes and argues for the concept of surrogate wars as an alternative means for conflict between states.
Author : John Braithwaite,Peter Drahos
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 724 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2000-02-13
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781107717503
Across an amazing sweep of the critical areas of business regulation - from contract, intellectual property and corporations law, to trade, telecommunications, labour standards, drugs, food, transport and environment - this book confronts the question of how the regulation of business has shifted from national to global institutions. Based on interviews with 500 international leaders in business and government, this book examines the role played by global institutions such as the WTO, the OECD, IMF, Moody's and the World Bank, as well as various NGOs and significant individuals. The authors argue that effective and decent global regulation depends on the determination of individuals to engage with powerful agendas and decision-making bodies that would otherwise be dominated by concentrated economic interests. This book will become a standard reference for readers in business, law, politics and international relations.
Author : Philip Norton
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 541 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2020-09-10
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781000095845
The Impact of Legislatures brings together key articles and path-breaking scholarship published in The Journal of Legislative Studies during its first 25 years of publication, enabling the reader to make sense of the impact of legislatures in the modern world. Encompassing theory, comparative analysis, and county-based empirical studies, the volume examines the impact of legislatures as the key representative institutions of nations, addressing their relationships both to government and to the people. Legislatures are ubiquitous. They provide legitimacy to measures of public policy and to government. As such, they are key to how a nation is governed. But they do much more than confer legitimacy. They are generally multi-functional and functionally adaptable bodies, and are an essential link between citizen and government. However, scholarship on them has not been extensive and has often been descriptive and country- specific, limiting the capacity to make sense of them as a particular species of institution. The chapters in this volume reflect scholarship that helps the reader appreciate the significance of the place and consequences of legislatures, examining not only the relationship between the legislature and the executive, but also the oft-neglected relationship between legislatures and the people. Reflecting the growing body of research in the field of legislative studies, carried by The Journal of Legislative Studies since its inception in 1995, The Impact of Legislatures is essential reading for anyone wishing to understand the impact of legislatures in the world today.
Author : Kenneth Dyson,Kevin Featherstone
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 881 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1999-10-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780191521195
Economic and monetary union in the European Union represents a massive change for Europe and for the world. The Road to Maastricht identifies why the agreement was possible and how the agreement was made. The book examines the motives that inspired European political leaders, the strategies that they pursued, and the institutions that were used to achieve monetary union. Drawing on a wide range of sources and unprecedented research and interviews, the book combines careful political analysis with new information about the way in which European Monetary Union was negotiated. It delves into the complex forces at work in Europe, including the cross-national political interactions, to produce an authoritative account of the boldest and riskiest venture in the history of European integration.
Author : Sidney John Roderick Noel
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Democratization
ISBN : 9780773529472
This book examines the problems of prospects of achieving sustainable democracy through power sharing political institutions in societies that have been torn by ethnic conflict. It combines theoretical and comparative essays with a wide range of case studies.
Author : Donald R. Kelley
Publisher : University of Arkansas Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1610751299
