1st Edition
Games Real Actors Play Actor-centered Institutionalism In Policy Research
By Fritz W Scharpf
Copyright 1997
334 Pages
by
Routledge
336 Pages
by
Routledge
336 Pages
by
Routledge
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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 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... Read more
Introduction -- Policy Research in the Face of Complexity -- Actor-Centered Institutionalism -- Actors -- Actor Constellations -- Unilateral Action in Anarchic Fields and Minimal Institutions -- Negotiated Agreements -- Decisions by Majority Vote -- Hierarchical Direction -- Varieties of the Negotiating State -- A Game-Theoretical Interpretation of Inflation and Unemployment in Western Europe -- Efficient Self-Coordination in Policy Networks—A Simulation Study
Biography
Fritz W Scharpf
