Clearly written and easily understood by the nonspecialist, "Nested Games" provides a systematic, empirically accurate, and theoretically coherent account of apparently irrational political actions.
List of FiguresList of TablesAcknowledgments1. Nested Games and Rationality2. In Defense of the Rational-Choice ApproachAppendix to Chapter 23. Two-Person Games with Variable PayoffsAppendix to Chapter 3: AAppendix to Chapter 3: B4· Games with Variable Rules, or the Politics of InstitutionalChange5. Why Do British Labour Party Activists Commit PoliticalSuicide?Appendix to Chapter 56. A Rational-Choice Approach to Consociationalism7. The Cohesion of French Electoral CoalitionsAppendix to Chapter 78. ConclusionsBibliographyIndex
