Research Catalog

Title

Analytical politics / Melvin J. Hinich, Michael C. Munger.

Author

Hinich, Melvin J.

Publication

Cambridge [England] ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 1997.

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Additional Authors

Munger, Michael C.

Description

xii, 253 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Summary

Analytical Politics is an introduction to analytical theories of politics, explicitly designed for undergraduate classes and for the professional interested in an overview. Analytical Politics tries to explain why societies take the political decisions they do and focuses on evaluating these decisions. We cannot evaluate how well governments perform without some baseline for comparison: What should governments be doing? The main questions in Analytical Politics involve the existence and stability of the center. An understanding of these issues is essential for anyone who hopes to evaluate the performance or predict the actions of democratic government.

Subject

• Political science
• Social choice
• Voting

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 225-240) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Part I. Basics: 1. The analysis of politics -- 2. The spatial model of Downs and Black: one policy dimension -- 3. Two dimensions: elusive equilibrium -- 4. Multiple dimensions: weighted Euclidean distance -- 5. Social choice and other voting models -- Part II. Extensions: 6. Uncertainty and policy preference -- 7. The voting decision and collective action -- Part III. Recent Advances: 8. Strategic voting, nonseparability, and probabilistic voting -- 9. The nature of issues in mass elections.

ISBN

• 0521562872 (hardback)
• 0521565677 (paperback)

LCCN

^^^96035419^

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library