Games Real Actors Play
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...
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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 narro
List of Tables and FiguresAcknowledgmentsIntroduction11Policy Research in the Face of Complexity192Actor-Centered Institutionalism363Actors514Actor Constellations695Unilateral Action in Anarchic Fields and Minimal Institutions976Negotiated Agreements1167Decisions by Majority Vote1518Hierarchical Direction1719Varieties of the Negotiating State195App. 1A Game-Theoretical Interpretation of Inflation and Unemployment in Western Europe217App. 2Efficient Self-Coordination in Policy Networks - A Simulation Study245References281About the Book and Author303Index305
