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Principles of Politics : a Rational Choice Theory Guide to Politics and Social Justice.
Presents the rational choice theories of collective action and social choice, applying them to problems of public policy and social justice.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press,
2012.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Principles of Politics: A Rational Choice Theory Guide to Politics and Social Justice; Title; Copyright; Abstract; Contents; Propositions and Corollaries; Tables; Figures; Sidebars; Definitions; Preface; Overview of the Book; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Politics, Universals, Knowledge Claims, and Methods; KNOWLEDGE; The Status of the Premises: Truth; The Relationship of the Premises to the Knowledge Claim: Logical Inference; Improving Knowledge Claims; UNIVERSALS, SYNERGY, AND CONTEXT; RATIONAL CHOICE THEORY: PREMISES TO UNDERSTAND POLITICS; Self-interest; Preferences.
- Research Frontiers: Experiments, Doubts, and Ways ForwardChoice; FOR FURTHER READING; Logic, Knowledge and Truth; Philosophy of Science; Rational Choice Theory and The Nature of Politics; PART I: THE LOGIC OF COLLECTIVE ACTION; CHAPTER 1: Voluntary Contributions and Collective Action; PUBLIC GOODS; GAME THEORY; SHARED INTERESTS, COLLECTIVE ACTION AND INDIVIDUAL BEHAVIOR; Prisoner Dilemma Games and Collective Action; Corollaries and Further Implications; Changing the productivity of a contribution; POSSIBLE SOLUTIONS; Transforming the Game; Rewards and Punishments; Moral Incentives.
- Repetition of the GameRepetition and knowledge of the termination point; RESEARCH FRONTIERS: EXPERIMENTS, DOUBTS, AND WAYS FORWARD; Behavioral Evidence from Prisoner Dilemma Experiments; A Further Comment Regarding Communication; CHAPTER 2: Going Beyond the Prisoner Dilemma; COLLECTIVE ACTION BEYOND THE PRISONER DILEMMA; No Dominant Strategy; The Assurance Game; The Chicken Game; The General Case; CHAPTER 3: Collective Action Applications to and Beyond Democratic Politics; RATIONAL IGNORANCE; DOING THE RIGHT THING; BEHAVIORAL CASCADES AND POPULAR UPRISINGS.
- COMMON-POOL RESOURCES AND ENVIRONMENTAL DEGRADATIONBROAD VERSUS NARROW, INTENSE INTERESTS; VOTING AND THE PARADOX OF VOTING; The Instrumental Incentive to Vote; Research Frontiers: Experiments and Ways Forward
- Voting as Expressive or Symbolic Behavior; CONCLUSIONS; FOR FURTHER READING; Prisoner Dilemma Games; Logic of Collective Action; Theory; Applications; PART II: COLLECTIVE CHOICE; CHAPTER 4: Individual to Collective Choice in One-Dimensional Politics; SIMPLE SINGLE-DIMENSIONAL ISSUES, SINGLE-PEAKEDNESS, AND MAJORITY RULE; Performance; Applications.
- Two Party Competition in a One-dimensional Political SpaceTwo-Party Competition in a Multidimensional World; Legislative Committees and the Protection of the Status Quo; Bicameralism; Committees and the Power of the Chair; Filibusters, Structure-Induced Equilibria, and Pivotal Voting; Concluding Remarks; CHAPTER 5: Individual to Collective Choice More Generally; EXTENDING SINGLE-PEAKED PREFERENCES TO TWO DIMENSIONS; MULTIDIMENSIONAL PREFERENCES WITH MORE THAN TWO PERSONS AND SOCIAL DECISIONS; The Pareto Set; Majority Rule; Getting Beyond Simple Majority Rule; RESEARCH FRONTIERS: WAYS FORWARD.