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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.
Contents
List of Figures
List of Tables
Acknowledgments
Chapter One. Nested Games and Rationality
Chapter Two. In Defense of the Rational-Choice Approach
Chapter Three. Two-Person Games with Variable Payoffs
Chapter Four. Games with Variable Rules, or the Politics of Institutional Change
Chapter Five. Why Do British Labour Party Activists Commit Political Suicide?
Chapter Six. A Rational-Choice Approach to Consociationalism
Chapter Seven. The Cohesion of French Electoral Coalitions
Chapter Eight. Conclusions
Bibliography
Index
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