The Governance Cycle in Parliamentary Democracies (Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics) - Softcover

De Marchi, Scott

 
9781009315487: The Governance Cycle in Parliamentary Democracies (Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 100931548X ISBN 13: 9781009315487
Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2023

Synopsis

Parliamentary democracy involves a never-ending cycle of elections, government formations, and the need for governments to survive in potentially hostile environments. These conditions require members of any government to make decisions on a large number of issues, some of which sharply divide them. Officials resolve these divisions by 'logrolling'– conceding on issues they care less about, in exchange for reciprocal concessions on issues to which they attach more importance. Though realistically modeling this 'governance cycle' is beyond the scope of traditional formal analysis, this book attacks the problem computationally in two ways. Firstly, it models the behavior of “functionally rational” senior politicians who use informal decision heuristics to navigate their complex high stakes setting. Secondly, by applying computational methods to traditional game theory, it uses artificial intelligence to model how hyper-rational politicians might find strategies that are close to optimal.

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About the Authors

Scott de Marchi is Professor of Political Science and Director of Decision Science at Duke University. He is a principal investigator for the for the National Science Foundation's Empirical Implications of Theoretical Models program and his research focuses on decision-making in contexts that include Congress, coalition and crisis bargaining, and interstate conflict.

Michael Laver is Emeritus Professor of Politics at New York University. He has published 20 books, including Multiparty Government: The Politics of Coalition in Europe (1991), Making and Breaking Governments (1996), and Party Competition: An Agent-Based Model (2014).

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Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Publication date
2023
Language
English
ISBN 10 
100931548X
ISBN 13 
9781009315487
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
228

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