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Order within Anarchy

The Laws of War as an International Institution

By: James D. Morrow

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Order within Anarchy

The Laws of War as an International Institution

By: James D. Morrow

Order within Anarchy examines treaty law, focusing on international law, laws of war and how effective such limitations truly are.

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Cambridge University Press

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1107048966

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9781107048966

Game Theory for Political Scientists

By: James D. Morrow

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Game Theory for Political Scientists

By: James D. Morrow

Game theory is the mathematical analysis of strategic interaction. In the fifty years since the appearance of von Neumann and Morgenstern's classic Theory of Games and Economic Behavior (Princeton, 1944), game theory has been widely applied to problems in economics. Until recently, however, its usefulness in political science has been underappreciated, in part because of the technical difficulty of the methods developed by economists. James Morrow's book is the first to provide a standard text adapting contemporary game theory to political analysis. It uses a minimum of mathematics to teach the essentials of game theory and contains problems and their solutions suitable for advanced undergraduate and graduate students in all branches of political science. Morrow begins with classical utility and game theory and ends with current research on repeated games and games of incomplete information. The book focuses on noncooperative game theory and its application to international relations, political economy, and American and comparative politics. Special attention is given to models of four topics: bargaining, legislative voting rules, voting in mass elections, and deterrence. An appendix reviews relevant mathematical techniques. Brief bibliographic essays at the end of each chapter suggest further readings, graded according to difficulty. This rigorous but accessible introduction to game theory will be of use not only to political scientists but also to psychologists, sociologists, and others in the social sciences.

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Princeton University Press

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0691213208

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9780691213200

The Logic of Political Survival

By: Bruce Bueno De Mesquita,Alastair Smith,Randolph M. Siverson,James D. Morrow

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The Logic of Political Survival

By: Bruce Bueno De Mesquita,Alastair Smith,Randolph M. Siverson,James D. Morrow

The authors of this ambitious book address a fundamental political question: why are leaders who produce peace and prosperity turned out of office while those who preside over corruption, war, and misery endure? Considering this political puzzle, they also answer the related economic question of why some countries experience successful economic development and others do not. The authors construct a provocative theory on the selection of leaders and present specific formal models from which their central claims can be deduced. They show how political leaders allocate resources and how institutions for selecting leaders create incentives for leaders to pursue good and bad public policy. They also extend the model to explain the consequences of war on political survival. Throughout the book, they provide illustrations from history, ranging from ancient Sparta to Vichy France, and test the model against statistics gathered from cross-national data. The authors explain the political intuition underlying their theory in nontechnical language, reserving formal proofs for chapter appendixes. They conclude by presenting policy prescriptions based on what has been demonstrated theoretically and empirically.

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MIT Press

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0262261774

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9780262261777

Globalization and the Nation State

The Impact of the IMF and the World Bank

By: Stephen Kosack,Gustav Ranis,James Vreeland

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Globalization and the Nation State

The Impact of the IMF and the World Bank

By: Stephen Kosack,Gustav Ranis,James Vreeland

This book brings together an international team of contributors to assess the political economy of the IMF and World Bank programs. Contributors include Stephen Coate, Stephen Morris, Ravi Kanbur and Allen Drazen.

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Routledge

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1135993882

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9781135993887

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Order within Anarchy

Order within Anarchy

Game Theory for Political Scientists

Game Theory for Political Scientists

The Logic of Political Survival

The Logic of Political Survival

Globalization and the Nation State

Globalization and the Nation State

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