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"The Presidential Election Game" may change the way you think about presidential elections and, for that matter, American politics in general. It is not filled with statistics about the voting behavior of citizens, nor does it give detailed histories of past campaigns. Rather, it is an analytic treatment of strategy in the race for the presidency, from the primaries to the general election. Using modern game theory and decision theory, Brams demonstrates why certain campaign strategies are more effective than others and supports his analysis with historical evidence.
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• Chapter 1: Experiencing the Art of Intelligence: William J. Lahneman and Ruben Arcos
• Chapter 2: Open Source Intelligence Portfolio: Challenging and Developing Intelligence Production and Communication Skills through Simulations: Ruben Arcos
• Chapter 3: The Collaborative Discovery Process: Leveraging Community Resources to Combat Human Trafficking: Randolph H. Pherson and Karen Saunders
• Chapter 4: Practicing Foresight Analysis in Intelligence Courses: William J. Lahneman
• Chapter 5: Intelligence Sovereignty Game: Roger Mason
• Chapter 6: Intelligence, Security, and Democracy: Florina Cristiana Matei and Carolyn Halladay
• Chapter 7: Security Gaming Scenario: A Pun Upon . . . Cards in a Multicultural Setting: Irena Chiru and Cristina Ivan
• Chapter 8: Disseminating the Intelligence: A Briefing Exercise Using Discourse Analysis: Julian Richards
• Chapter 9: Speak of the Devil: Simulating Competitive analysis in the Classroom: Stephen Coulthart
• Chapter 10: Spymaster: An Introduction to Collection Management (A Simulation): Kristan Wheaton
• Chapter 11: The Mysterious Tradecraft of the Great Pulcinella - Distraction, Deception and Deterrence: Chris Jagger and Shaun Romeril
• Chapter 12: Strategic Visioning: Processes to Facilitate Decision Making Within Complex Social Systems: Sheila R. Ronis and Richard J. Chasdi Competitive Intelligence
• Chapter 13: Building an alert-based scenario analysis gaming program for your organization: Nanette J. Bulger
• Chapter 14: Competitive Simulations in support of a product launch in the biopharmaceutical industry: Alfred Reszka and Daniel Pascheles.
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The only professional resource of its kind to offer in one volume original simulations, exercises, and games designed by academics and intelligence professionals from several countries. These interactive learning tools add immeasurable value to students' understanding of the intelligence enterprise, and the various contributors provide an international perspective to the topics and approached. For use in undergraduate and graduate courses in intelligence, intel analysis, business intelligence, and various other national security policy courses offered in universities and government training facilities with the need for training in analytic principles and tradecraft.
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• 1. Electoral competition under certainty--
• 2. Electoral competition under uncertainty--
• 3. Special interest--
• 4. Veto players--
• 5. Delegation--
• 6. Coalitions--
• 7. Political agency--
• 8. Regime change.
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Formal Models of Domestic Politics offers the first unified and accessible treatment of canonical and important new formal models of domestic politics. Intended for students in political science and economics who have already taken a course in game theory, the text covers eight classes of models: electoral competition under certainty and uncertainty, special interest politics, veto players, delegation, coalitions, political agency and regime change. Political economists, comparativists and Americanists alike will find models here central to their research interests. The text assumes no mathematical knowledge beyond basic calculus, with an emphasis placed on clarity of presentation. Political scientists will appreciate the simplification of economic environments to focus on the political logic of models; economists will discover many important models of politics published outside of their discipline; and both instructors and students will value the numerous classroom-tested exercises.
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At least five U.S. presidential elections have been won by the second most popular candidate, because of "spoilers"--minor candidates who take enough votes away from the most popular candidate to tip the election. The spoiler effect is a consequence of the "impossibility theorem," discovered by Nobel laureate economist Kenneth Arrow, which asserts that voting is fundamentally unfair--and political strategists are exploiting the mathematical faults of the simple majority vote. This book presents a solution to the spoiler problem: a system called range voting, already widely used on the Internet, is the fairest voting method of all, according to computer studies. Range voting remains controversial, however, and author Poundstone assesses the obstacles confronting any attempt to change the American electoral system.--From publisher description.