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  • Divine Games

    Game Theory and the Undecidability of a Superior Being

    by Steven J. Brams ...
    A game-theoretical analysis of interactions between a human being and an omnipotent and omniscient godlike being highlights the inherent unknowability of the latter's superiority.In Divine Games, Steven Brams analyzes games that a human being might play with an omnipotent and omniscient godlike being. Drawing on game theory and his own theory of moves, Brams combines the analysis of thorny ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • The Presidential Election Game

    by Steven J. Brams ...
    The Presidential Election Game may change the way you think about presidential elections and, for that matter, American politics in general. It is not filled with statistics about the voting behavior of citizens, nor does it give detailed histories of past campaigns. Rather, it is an analytic treatment of strategy in the race for the presidency, fr ... Read more

    $67.99 USD

  • Mathematics and Democracy

    Designing Better Voting and Fair-Division Procedures

    by Steven J. Brams ...
    Voters today often desert a preferred candidate for a more viable second choice to avoid wasting their vote. Likewise, parties to a dispute often find themselves unable to agree on a fair division of contested goods. In Mathematics and Democracy, Steven Brams, a leading authority in the use of mathematics to design decision-making processes, shows how social-choice and game theory could make ... Read more

    $41.79 USD

  • Game Theory and Politics

    by Steven J. Brams ...
    Series series Dover Books on Mathematics
    In this illuminating and instructive survey, author Steven J. Brams demonstrates both the insights and the pitfalls that can result from applying game theoretic models to the analysis of problems in political science. Using plenty of real-life examples, Brams shows how game theory can explain and elucidate complex political situations, from warfare to presidential vetoes. In these cases and others ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • Why Parties?

    A Second Look

    by John H. Aldrich ...
    Since its first appearance fifteen years ago, Why Parties? has become essential reading for anyone wishing to understand the nature of American political parties. In the interim, the party system has undergone some radical changes. In this landmark book, now rewritten for the new millennium, John H. Aldrich goes beyond the clamor of arguments over whether American political parties are in ... Read more

    $22.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Public Choice III

    by Dennis C. Mueller ...
    This book represents a considerable revision and expansion of Public Choice II (1989). Six new chapters have been added, and several chapters from the previous edition have been extensively revised. The discussion of empirical work in public choice has been greatly expanded. As in the previous editions, all of the major topics of public choice are covered. These include: why the state exists, ... Read more

    $65.59 USD

  • The American Congress Reader

    by Steven S. Smith, Jason M. Roberts, Ryan J. Vander Wielen ...
    The American Congress Reader provides a supplement to the popular and updated American Congress undergraduate textbook. By the same authors who drew upon Capitol Hill experience and nationally recognized scholarship to present a crisp introduction and analysis of Congress's inner mechanics, the Reader compiles the best relevant scholarship on party and committee systems, leadership, voting, and ... Read more

    $66.49 USD

  • Elections in America

    Edited by Kay Lehman Schlozman ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    First published in 1987, Elections in America focuses upon different substantive aspects of elections in America. The essays in the volume orient themselves differentially with respect to these alternative perspectives on the role of elections in democratic governance. Although varied in substantive focus, methodological approach, and theoretical orientation, these essays critically examine what ... Read more

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  • The End of Southern Exceptionalism

    Class, Race, and Partisan Change in the Postwar South

    by Byron E. Shafer, Richard Johnston ...
    The transformation of Southern politics after World War II changed the political life not just of this distinctive region, but of the entire nation. Until now, the critical shift in Southern political allegiance from Democratic to Republican has been explained, by scholars and journalists, as a white backlash to the civil rights revolution.In this myth-shattering book, Byron Shafer and Richard ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • Tides of Consent

    How Public Opinion Shapes American Politics

    by James A. Stimson ...
    Politics is a trial in which those in government - and those who aspire to serve - make proposals, debate alternatives, and pass laws. Then the jury of public opinion decides. It likes the proposals or actions or it does not. It trusts the actors or it does not. It moves, always at the margin, and then those who benefit from the movement are declared winners. This book is about that public opinion ... Read more

    $27.89 USD

  • Electoral Realignments

    A Critique of an American Genre

    by Professor David R. Mayhew ...
    Series series The Institution for Social and Policy St
    The study of electoral realignments is one of the most influential and intellectually stimulating enterprises undertaken by American political scientists. Realignment theory has been seen as a science able to predict changes, and generations of students, journalists, pundits, and political scientists have been trained to be on the lookout for signs” of new electoral realignments. Now a major ... Read more

    $18.59 USD

  • Polling Matters

    Why Leaders Must Listen to the Wisdom of the People

    by Frank Newport ...
    From The Gallup Organization-the most respected source on the subject-comes a fascinating look at the importance of measuring public opinion in modern society.For years, public-opinion polls have been a valuable tool for gauging the positions of American citizens on a wide variety of topics. Polling applies scientific principles to understanding and anticipating the insights, emotions, and ... Read more

    $12.99 USD