An accessible treatment of important formal models of domestic politics, fully updated and now including a chapter on nondemocracy.

This book, first published in 1989, gives a critical account of formal international relations theory. That formal and mathematical methods can be applied to th

Political Game Theory is a self-contained introduction to game theory and its applications to political science. The book presents choice theory, social choice

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