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The Governance Cycle in Parliamentary Democracies: A Computational Social Science Approach

By Scott de Marchi , Michael Laver

Book information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2023
ISBN
1009315471, 9781009315470
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (1735524 bytes)
Series
Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics
Pages
227\228
Time added
2023-02-20 00:32:30

Description

Parliamentary democracy involves a never-ending cycle of elections, government formations, and the need for governments to survive in potentially hostile environments. These conditions require members of any government to make decisions on a large number of issues, some of which sharply divide them. Officials resolve these divisions by 'logrolling'– conceding on issues they care less about, in exchange for reciprocal concessions on issues to which they attach more importance. Though realistically modeling this 'governance cycle' is beyond the scope of traditional formal analysis, this book attacks the problem computationally in two ways. Firstly, it models the behavior of “functionally rational” senior politicians who use informal decision heuristics to navigate their complex high stakes setting. Secondly, by applying computational methods to traditional game theory, it uses artificial intelligence to model how hyper-rational politicians might find strategies that are close to optimal.

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