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Analyzing Politics
Rationality, Behavior, and Institutions
Kenneth A. Shepsle"
HARVARD UNIVERSITY
Mark S. Bonchek
HARVARD UNIVERSITY
W • W • Norton & Company
New York • London
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Contents
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Acknowledgments
vii
Part I
INTRODUCTION
1
It Isn't Rocket Science, b u t . . .
2 Rationality: The Model of Choice
5
15
Part II
GROUP CHOICE
3 Getting Started with Group Choice Analysis
39
4 Group Choice and Majority Rule
49
5 Spatial Models of Majority Rule
82
6 Strategic Behavior: Sophistication,
Misrepresentation, and Manipulation
137
7 Voting Methods and Electoral Systems
166
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Contents
Part III
COOPERATION, COLLECTIVE ACTION,
AND PUBLIC GOODS
8 Cooperation
197
9 Collective Action
220
10 Public Goods, Externalities, and the Commons 260
Part IV
INSTITUTIONS
11 Institutions: General Remarks
299
12 Legislatures
312
13 Bureaucracy and Intergovernmental Relations 345
14 Leadership
380
15 Courts and Judges
405
16 Cabinet Government and Parliamentary
Democracy
432
17 Final Lessons
457
Index
461