Analyzing Politics provides a clear, thorough, and jargon-free introduction to rational choice theory.
Through case studies, illustrations, and examples, Shepsle and Bonchek provide students with the means to analyze a wide variety of situations.
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Mark S. Bonchek is a Ph.D. candidate in political economy and government at Harvard University and director of the Political Participation Project, a nonpartisan research initiative affiliated with the Intelligent Information Infrastructure Project in the Artificial Intelligence Lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Kenneth A. Shepsle is the George D. Markham Professor of Government at Harvard University. He is the author or co-author of several books, including Politics in Plural Societies: A Theory of Democratic Instability, The Giant Jigsaw Puzzle: Democratic Committee Assignments in the Modern House, Models of Multiparty Electoral Competition, and Making and Breaking Governments. He has edited The Congressional Budget Process: Some Views from the Inside, Political Equilibrium, Perspectives on Positive Political Economy, and Cabinet Ministers and Parliamentary Government. He has also authored numerous articles on formal political theory, congressional politics, public policy, and political economy. He is the co-author of the successful undergraduate text Analyzing Politics: Rationality, Behavior, and Institutions.
Kenneth A. Shepsle is the George D. Markham Professor of Government at Harvard University. He is the author or co-author of several books, including Politics in Plural Societies: A Theory of Democratic Instability, The Giant Jigsaw Puzzle: Democratic Committee Assignments in the Modern House, Models of Multiparty Electoral Competition, and Making and Breaking Governments. He has edited The Congressional Budget Process: Some Views from the Inside, Political Equilibrium, Perspectives on Positive Political Economy, and Cabinet Ministers and Parliamentary Government. He has also authored numerous articles on formal political theory, congressional politics, public policy, and political economy. He is the co-author of the successful undergraduate text Analyzing Politics: Rationality, Behavior, and Institutions.
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Analyzing Politics; Rationality, Behaviors, and Institutions,
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This review is from: Analyzing Politics: Rationality, Behavior and Instititutions (New Institutionalism in American Politics) (Paperback)
I am using this book as the primary text of a graduate level course in Rational Action Theory. It is very clear and easy to read, and takes several different and complex matters, and simplifies them. The subject matter involves: How we make decisions, Politics, Statics, and Probability. Of all material that I have read on the subject matter including The Federalist Papers, The Prince, Microeconomics and Behavior, and An Economic Theory of Democracy, this is by far the easiest to understand. I rate this book four stars. I would have rated it five stars if it used examples that were more interesting, and held the reader to the relatively dry subject matter a little better. I am not trying to find fault with this very good work. I just think that it could have been even better if some minor changes had been made.
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This book changed the way I think about public policy,
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Incredibly nuanced, systematic and complex; shows you just how and why policy is influenced by the those in charge. Very theoretical with an anecdote or two for each principle.
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Great Intro to Political Theory text,
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This text was assigned reading for my political theory class, but I might hold on to it after the class is over. A concise explanation of rational decision making in politics. This text is easy to read and understand at all levels, and provides a nice overview of all important concepts, in particular, methods of strategic voting. Great as a text, but still a good read for anyone with a particular interest in how a democracy works on a logical and rational level.
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