Bibliograph

Ideology and strategy, a century of Swedish politics, Leif Lewin ; translated by Victor Kayfetz

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Ideology and strategy, a century of Swedish politics, Leif Lewin ; translated by Victor Kayfetz

Language

eng

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Ideology and strategy

Medium

electronic resource

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Oclc number

708569009

Responsibility statement

Leif Lewin ; translated by Victor Kayfetz

Series statement

Political economy of institutions and decisionsCambridge Social Sciences eBooks

Sub title

a century of Swedish politics

Summary

Ideology and Strategy is an analysis of issues in Swedish parliamentary history over the past 100 years. Leif Lewin has chosen eight issues and scrutinized them using traditional analysis and, importantly, game-theoretic reasoning. For each, he presents the outcome and its history and the strategic behaviour of the actors. He gives special attention to the strategy used by the potential loser. The first chapter presents the methodology to be employed in the analysis and introduces concepts and strategies such as voter's paradox, prisoners' dilemma, the Condorcet method, logrolling and others. The final chapter includes a review of the concept of politics as rational action. Lewin's analysis begins with the tariff dispute of the 1880s and ranges from suffrage reform, parliamentary government, the crisis programme of the 1930s, economic planning, the pension system, nuclear energy, to employee investment funds. Ideology and Strategy blends history, substantive issues and potential analysis, and is an important contribution to rational choice theory.--, Provided by publisher

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