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024 7 _a10.3138/9781442675155
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035 _a(DE-B1597)9781442675155
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035 _a(OCoLC)1163877915
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082 0 4 _a320/.01/5193
084 _aonline - DeGruyter
100 1 _aFlanagan, Thomas
_eautore
245 1 0 _aGame Theory and Canadian Politics /
_cThomas Flanagan.
264 1 _aToronto :
_bUniversity of Toronto Press,
_c[1998]
264 4 _c©1998
300 _a1 online resource (224 p.)
336 _atext
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337 _acomputer
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338 _aonline resource
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506 0 _arestricted access
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520 _aThis is the first book-length application of game theory to Canadian politics. It uses a series of case studies to illustrate fundamental concepts of game theory such as two-person and n-person games; solution in mixed strategies; ordinal games; Nash equilibrium; coordination, Assurance, Chicken and Prisoner's Dilemma models; Schelling curves; coalition theory and Riker's size principle; voting rules, cycles, and the Condorcet winner; the Banzhaf power index; structure-induced equilibrium; and spatial models of political conflict. No mathematics more complex than simple algebra is required to follow the exposition.The case studies are not just contrived illustrations of abstract models but intensively researched studies of important episodes in Canadian politics. Topics include the Lubicon Lake stalemate, metrification and vaccination; the size of winning coalitions; formulas for amending the Canadian constitution; the mechanics of choosing party leaders; Parliament's failure to legislate on abortion after the Morgentaler decision; and the entry of the Reform Party into the political system. In each case, utilization of game-theory models produces new and sometimes surprising conclusions.Game theory, and the rational-choice paradigm of which it is a part, are an increasingly important addition to the conventional modes of political analysis. This book is intended to show what game theory can add to the philosophical, institutional, and behavioural approaches that have dominated previous works on Canadian politics.
538 _aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
546 _aIn English.
588 0 _aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 01. Nov 2023)
650 7 _aPOLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory.
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850 _aIT-RoAPU
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781442675155
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