| Description |
1 online resource (xvi, 318 pages) : illustrations |
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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. Fritz Scharpf criticizes public choice theory as too narrow in its examination of actor motives and discursive democracy as too blind to the institutional incentives of political parties. 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 linking positive theory to the normative issues that necessarily arise in policy research and employs many cross-national examples, including a comparative use of game theory to understand the differing reactions of Great Britain, Sweden, Austria, and the Federal Republic of Germany to the economic stagflation of the 1970s."--Provided by publisher |
| Notes |
"First published 1997 by Westview Press"--PDF image of title page verso |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (Taylor & Francis Group platform, viewed January 20, 2023) |
| 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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Game theory
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Policy sciences -- Mathematical models
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Political games
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Politics and government
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Social sciences -- Mathematical models
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| SUBJECT |
United States -- Politics and government. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140410
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| Subject |
United States
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780429500275 |
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0429500270 |
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9780429979903 |
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0429979908 |
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