Political Bargaining: Theory, Practice and Process Book

	List of Figures and Tables
	List of Commonly Used Symbols
	Preface
	Introduction	1
Ch. 1	A Conceptual Framework for the Study of Political Bargaining	19
	The 'Hard Core' of the Rational Choice Theory	20
	Cooperative Game Theory in Political Bargaining Theory	24
	Non-Cooperative Game Theory and Political Bargaining Theory	25
	Rubinstein's Formulation of the Bargaining Problem	27
	Concluding Remarks: Bargaining in Political Settings	32
Ch. 2	The Social Problem	35
	The Arrowian Social Choice Problem	36
	The Chaos Theorem	41
	Hobbes' Collective Action Problem	45
	Coase's Social Cost Problem	47
	Concluding Remarks: A Bargained Social Contract	49
App	An Outline of the Proof to Arrow's Theorem	51
Ch. 3	A Bargained Social Contract	55
	Introduction: Spontaneous and International Origins of Social Order	55
	The Origin of Social Order: The State of Nature	56
	The Origin of Order: Spontaneous Emergence and the Folk Theorem	57
	The Origin of Order: Emergence by Design & the Role of Governments	63
	Participation Games	64
	Negotiating the Social Contract Through a Bargaining Process	68
	The Bargained Social Contract	71
	Concluding Remarks: An Imperfect Bargained Social Contract	73
Ch. 4	Special Interests and Political Entrepreneurs	77
	Introduction: The Role of Political Entrepreneurs	77
	Special Interests and Entrepreneurs	78
	A Model of a Polity with Special Interests and Entrepreneurs	80
	The State as a Nexus of Information and Coordination of Special Interests	87
	Concluding Remarks: The Political Origin of Social Order	89
Ch. 5	Electoral and Post Electoral Bargaining in Parliamentary Systems	93
	The Historic Origins of Representative Government	94
	Barriers of Entry into Elected Bodies	97
	The Spatial Theory of Electoral Competition	99
	The Legislative Bargaining Game - The Heart of the Polity	101
	The Coalition Bargaining Game - The General Heart of the Polity	103
	The Vote Decision	107
	Parties' Strategic Positions at the Initial Stage of the Game	111
	Conclusions: Representation Through Bargaining	112
Ch. 6	Post Electoral Bargaining in Presidential Systems	115
	Division of Power: Some Preliminary Thoughts	115
	A Spatial Model of Checks and Balances	116
	Organization of U.S. House of Representatives: The Role of Committees	120
	Coalition Building in the U.S. House of Representatives	124
	Bargaining Over Unanimous Consent Agreements in the U.S. Senate	130
	Bargaining Between Legislators and Special Interests	133
Ch. 7	Bargaining at the International Arena	137
	The Nature of Bargaining in the International Arena	137
	Inter-State Pattern of Equilibria: The Israeli-Egyptian Conflict	138
	The Democratic Peace Hypothesis	143
	A Deductive Approach to the Democratic Peace Hypothesis	146
	A Game-Theoretic Model that Implies the 'Democratic Peace' Hypothesis	149
	Conclusion	155
	References	159
	Index	171