About the Book
Clearly written and easily understood by the nonspecialist, Nested Games provides a systematic, empirically accurate, and theoretically coherent account of apparently irrational political actions.
Nested Games
Rational Choice in Comparative Politics
by George Tsebelis (Author)
Price: $33.95 / £29.00
Publication Date: Aug 1991
Edition: 1st Edition
Title Details:
Rights: World
Pages: 292
ISBN: 9780520911970
Trim Size: 6 x 9
Table of Contents
List of Figures
List of Tables
Acknowledgments
1. Nested Games and Rationality
2. In Defense of the Rational-Choice Approach
Appendix to Chapter 2
3. Two-Person Games with Variable Payoffs
Appendix to Chapter 3: A
Appendix to Chapter 3: B
4· Games with Variable Rules, or the Politics of Institutional
Change
5. Why Do British Labour Party Activists Commit Political
Suicide?
Appendix to Chapter 5
6. A Rational-Choice Approach to Consociationalism
7. The Cohesion of French Electoral Coalitions
Appendix to Chapter 7
8. Conclusions
Bibliography
Index
List of Tables
Acknowledgments
1. Nested Games and Rationality
2. In Defense of the Rational-Choice Approach
Appendix to Chapter 2
3. Two-Person Games with Variable Payoffs
Appendix to Chapter 3: A
Appendix to Chapter 3: B
4· Games with Variable Rules, or the Politics of Institutional
Change
5. Why Do British Labour Party Activists Commit Political
Suicide?
Appendix to Chapter 5
6. A Rational-Choice Approach to Consociationalism
7. The Cohesion of French Electoral Coalitions
Appendix to Chapter 7
8. Conclusions
Bibliography
Index
Reviews
“The notion of nested games greatly expands the domain of formal analysis while also rendering game theory more capable of reflecting political reality.”—David Cameron, Yale University