In this chapter we put forward a framework for using game theory to study politics. In our view, the rigorous analysis of strategic interactions can make a number of contributions to our collective understanding of political phenomena. Author(s): Adam Meirowitz, Kristopher W. Ramsay Read full article [...]

A voluminous literature seeks to understand which institutions effectively resolve disputes that might otherwise lead to military conflict. The emergence of a dispute is usually taken as the starting point of the analysis so as to ask questions of the sort, given a dispute, how will different institutions such [...]

Prosecutors play an important role in holding police accountable by determining whether or not an officer has broken the law.