Rational Politics

Decisions, Games, and Strategy

Steven J. Brams

• Editorial: Academic Press
• Año: 2014
• ISBN:
  9781483258577
• Categoría: Politics & International Relations
• Categoría: Essays in Politics & International Relations

Rational Politics: Decisions, Games, and Strategy focuses on the unified presentation of politics as a rational human activity, including the paradox of voting and proportional representation. The publication first offers information on the study of rational politics, political intrigue in the Bible, and candidate strategies. Topics include the factor of timing in presidential primaries, rational positions in a multicandidate race, primacy of issues and their spatial representation, and politics in the story of Esther. The text then elaborates on voting paradoxes and the problems of representation, voting power, and threats and deterrence. Discussions focus on a sequential view of the Cuban missile crisis, use of threat power in Poland, power anomalies in the European Community Council of Ministers, probability of the paradox of voting, empirical examples of the paradox of voting, and problems in achieving proportional representation. The book is a valuable reference for researchers interested in rational politics.

Índice

• Front Cover
• Rational Politics: Decisions, Games, and Strategy
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• Preface
• Figures and Tables
• Chapter 1. The Study of Rational Politics
• Chapter 2. Political Intrigue in the Bible: Esther
• Chapter 3. Candidate Strategies
• Chapter 4. Voting Paradoxes and Problems of Representation
• Chapter 5. Voting Power
• Chapter 6. Threats and Deterrence
• Chapter 7. Traps: No-Win Situations
• Chapter 8. Coalitions
• Chapter 9. Strategy and Ethics
• Glossary
• Bibliography
• Index