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9780472087235: Political Science As Puzzle Solving
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ISBN 10: 0472087231 ISBN 13: 9780472087235
Casa editrice: Univ of Michigan Pr, 2001

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Each of the essays in this volume addresses a particular empirical puzzle involving decisions or outcomes that, at least on the surface, seem difficult (if not impossible) to explain.
In the first three essays, the authors look at the behavior of an individual or an organization such as trade union or political party that, at first blush, does not seem to make sense: Why would a political leader gamble on a vote of confidence that he didn't need to call and the failure of which would seriously harm his party's future prospects? Why would a trade union conduct a strike that it knows it can't win? Why didn't the Japanese Socialist party modify its platform to attract more voters so as to give it a chance of holding power in Japan? The authors show that behavior that appears irrational is not really so once we understand the full context in which the behavior is embedded.
The fourth essay asks how a major empire--the Soviet empire--could have dissolved so quickly. Here the explanation involves an interesting new theory: the power of "decisive inaction." The final essay elaborates a formal model of equilibrium behavior in the social welfare system to consider the empirical puzzle of why increasing unemployment benefits often appear not to significantly increase the attractiveness of the unemployment option.
The contributors are Miriam Golden, Kaare Strom, Masaru Kohno, Richard Anderson, George Tsebelis and Roland Stephen.
Bernard Grofman is Professor of Political Science and Social Psychology, University of California, Irvine.

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Editore
Univ of Michigan Pr
Data di pubblicazione
2001
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN 10 
0472087231
ISBN 13 
9780472087235
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Numero di pagine
152
Redattore
Grofman Bernard
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Casa editrice: Univ of Michigan Pr, 2001
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