| Description |
xvi, 318 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Series |
Theoretical lenses on public policy |
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Theoretical lenses on public policy.
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| Contents |
1. Policy Research in the Face of Complexity -- 2. Actor-Centered Institutionalism -- 3. Actors -- 4. Actor Constellations -- 5. Unilateral Action in Anarchic Fields and Minimal Institutions -- 6. Negotiated Agreements -- 7. Decisions by Majority Vote -- 8. Hierarchical Direction -- 9. Varieties of the Negotiating State -- App. 1. A Game-Theoretical Interpretation of Inflation and Unemployment in Western Europe -- App. 2. Efficient Self-Coordination in Policy Networks - A Simulation Study / Fritz Wilhelm Scharpf and Matthias Mohr |
| Summary |
Games Real Actors Play provides a persuasive argument for the use of basic concepts of game theory in understanding public policy conflicts. With the nonspecialist in mind, the author presents a coherent actor-centered model of institutional rational choice that integrates a wide variety of theoretical contributions, such as game theory, negotiation theory, transaction cost economics, international relations, and democratic theory. Games Real Actors Play offers a framework for theoretically disciplined explanations in small-numbers case studies and for linking positive theory to the normative issues that necessarily arise in empirical policy research. The usefulness of the concepts introduced is illustrated by many examples from comparative studies in Europe and the United States, including Scharpf's own game theoretical explanation of the differing reactions of Austria, Great Britain, Sweden, and West Germany to the economic stagflation of the 1970s |
| Notes |
Formerly CIP. Uk |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Political games.
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Policy sciences -- Mathematical models.
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Social sciences -- Mathematical models.
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Game theory.
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Policy sciences.
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| LC no. |
97016122 |
| ISBN |
0813399688 paperback |
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0813368790 hardcover |
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