Analyzing Politics

1 It Isn't Rocket Science, but...
2 Rationality: The Model of Choice

Part II Group Choice
3 Getting Started with Group Choice Analysis
4 Group Choice and Majority Rule
5 Spatial Models of Majority Rule
6 Strategic Behavior: Sophistication, Misrepresentation, and Manipulation
7 Voting Methods and Electoral Systems

Part III Cooperation, Collective Action, and Public Goods
8 Cooperation
9 Collective Action
10 Public Goods, Externalities, and the Commons
Part IV Institutions
11 Institutions: General Remarks
12 Legislatures
13 Bureaucracy and Intergovernmental Relations
14 Leadership
15 Courts and Judges
16 Cabinet Government and Parliamentary Democracy
17 Final Lessons
Index