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This book brings an exciting and innovative new approach to the study of politics today. It introduces political bargaining, a process at the heart of all political and economic exchanges in contemporary society and the very essence of politics itself, to provide a new framework and fresh insights to modern political science. The authors trace the prevalence of bargaining processes in politics from the abstract level of individual human interaction and the `state of natureĈ to the more concrete political or institutionalized level. They introduce students to theory -- the basic models of game theory, rational choice theory and positivist approaches; practice -- the practical manifestations of political bargaining in everyday national and international political life; and process -- its setting, the interests of the players involved, the conditions and properties that affect their calculations and, consequently, their ability to obtain desired outcomes. Political Bargaining provides students with the basic tools for learning about and participating in politics today by richly illustrating how the authoritative allocation of scarce resources is arrived at through a complex bargaining process between competing interests in society. It will be essential reading for student and lecturer alike across political science and the social sciences more widely.
This volume showcases the impact of the work of Douglass C. North,
winner of the Nobel Prize and father of the field of new
institutional economics. Leading scholars contribute to a
substantive discussion that best illustrates the broad reach and
depth of Professor North's work. The volume speaks concisely about
his legacy across multiple social sciences disciplines,
specifically on scholarship pertaining to the understanding of
property rights, the institutions that support the system of
property rights, and economic growth.
In this book, Itai Sened examines the political institution of
property and other individual rights. His argument is that the
foundation of such rights is to be found in the political and
economic institutions which grant and enforce them and not in any
set of moral principles or 'nature'. The book further argues that
individual rights are instituted through a political process, and
not by any hidden market forces. The origin of rights is placed in
a social contract that evolves as a political process in which
governments grant and protect property and other individual rights
to constituents, in return for economic and political support.
Extending neo-institutional theory to the subject, and using a
positive game theoretic approach in its analysis, this book is an
original contribution to scholarship on the evolution of rights.
This book adapts a formal model of elections and legislative
politics to study party politics in Israel, Italy, the Netherlands,
Britain, and the United States. The approach uses the idea of
valence, that is, the party leader"s non-policy electoral
popularity, and employs survey data to model these elections. The
analysis explains why small parties in Israel and Italy keep to the
electoral periphery. In the Netherlands, Britain, and the US, the
electoral model is extended to include the behavior of activists.
In the case of Britain, it is shown that there will be contests
between activists for the two main parties over who controls
policy. For the recent 2005 election, it is argued that the losses
of the Labour party were due to Blair"s falling valence. For the
US, the model gives an account of the rotation of the locations of
the two major parties over the last century.
This book brings an exciting and innovative new approach to the study of politics today. It introduces political bargaining, a process at the heart of all political and economic exchanges in contemporary society and the very essence of politics itself, to provide a new framework and fresh insights to modern political science. The authors trace the prevalence of bargaining processes in politics from the abstract level of individual human interaction and the `state of natureĈ to the more concrete political or institutionalized level. They introduce students to theory -- the basic models of game theory, rational choice theory and positivist approaches; practice -- the practical manifestations of political bargaining in everyday national and international political life; and process -- its setting, the interests of the players involved, the conditions and properties that affect their calculations and, consequently, their ability to obtain desired outcomes. Political Bargaining provides students with the basic tools for learning about and participating in politics today by richly illustrating how the authoritative allocation of scarce resources is arrived at through a complex bargaining process between competing interests in society. It will be essential reading for student and lecturer alike across political science and the social sciences more widely.
In this book Itai Sened provides an original analysis of the political institutions that protect property and individual rights. He argues that the origin of these rights resides in political institutions, and not in any set of moral principles. Individual rights are said to derive from a "social contract" that evolves through a political process in which governments grant and protect rights in return for political and economic support.
This book adapts a formal model of elections and legislative
politics to study party politics in Israel, Italy, the Netherlands,
Britain, and the United States. The approach uses the idea of
valence, that is, the party leader's non-policy electoral
popularity, and employs survey data to model these elections. The
analysis explains why small parties in Israel and Italy keep to the
electoral periphery. In the Netherlands, Britain, and the US, the
electoral model is extended to include the behavior of activists.
In the case of Britain, it is shown that there will be contests
between activists for the two main parties over who controls
policy. For the recent 2005 election, it is argued that the losses
of the Labour party were due to Blair's falling valence. For the
US, the model gives an account of the rotation of the locations of
the two major parties over the last century.
This volume showcases the impact of the work of Douglass North,
winner of the Nobel Prize and father of the field of new
institutional economics. Leading scholars contribute to a
substantive discussion that best illustrates the broad reach and
depth of Professor North's work. The volume speaks concisely about
his legacy across multiple social sciences disciplines,
specifically on scholarship pertaining to the understanding of
property rights, the institutions that support the system of
property rights, and economic growth.
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