Rational Politics

Rational Politics
Author :
Publisher : Academic Press
Total Pages : 248
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781483258577
ISBN-13 : 1483258572
Rating : 4/5 (572 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Rational Politics by : Steven J. Brams

Download or read book Rational Politics written by Steven J. Brams and published by Academic Press. This book was released on 2014-05-10 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Rational Politics Related Books

Rational Politics
Language: en
Pages: 248
Authors: Steven J. Brams
Categories: Political Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-05-10 - Publisher: Academic Press

GET EBOOK

Rational Politics: Decisions, Games, and Strategy focuses on the unified presentation of politics as a rational human activity, including the paradox of voting
Rationality in Politics and its Limits
Language: en
Pages: 307
Authors: Terry Nardin
Categories: Political Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-10-02 - Publisher: Routledge

GET EBOOK

The word ‘rationality’ and its cognates, like ‘reason’, have multiple contexts and connotations. Rational calculation can be contrasted with rational in
Bounded Rationality and Politics
Language: en
Pages: 248
Authors: Jonathan Bendor
Categories: Political Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010-06-02 - Publisher: Univ of California Press

GET EBOOK

In Bounded Rationality and Politics, Jonathan Bendor considers two schools of behavioral economics—the first guided by Tversky and Kahneman’s work on heuris
The Limits of Rationality
Language: en
Pages: 436
Authors: Karen Schweers Cook
Categories: Political Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2008-10-03 - Publisher: University of Chicago Press

GET EBOOK

Prevailing economic theory presumes that agents act rationally when they make decisions, striving to maximize the efficient use of their resources. Psychology h
Rationality and Power
Language: en
Pages: 308
Authors: Bent Flyvbjerg
Categories: Philosophy
Type: BOOK - Published: 1998-02-28 - Publisher: University of Chicago Press

GET EBOOK

In the Enlightenment tradition, rationality is considered well-defined. However, the author of this study argues that rationality is context-dependent, and that