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  Keith L. Dougherty
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  Introduction to Rational Choice (POLS 8000)
 
 
Syllabus

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Course Reserves (search under Dougherty; password: dougherty).

Lectures

week 1: introduction and logic.
week 2: rationality and social choice.
week 3: extensive form games.
week 4: normal form games.
week 5: Reform in Latin America and Marbury v Madison.
week 6: cuban missile crisis and trust game (two sets of notes).
week 7: logic of collective action and n-player games (two sets of notes).
week 8: voter turnout and the political machines.
week 9: international alliances.
week 10: repeated games.
week 11: median voter theorem and deriving ideal points (two sets of notes).
week 12: pivotal politics.
week 13: multiple dimensions and 2D optimal classification (two sets of notes).
week 14: Cycles at the Constitutional Convention and the Election of 1824 (two sets of notes).


Handouts and Relevant Links

Pedgogical Proof of Arrow's Theorem.
Cuban Missile Crisis: symmetric incomplete information game.
Blank version of the incomplete information, trust game.
Location of the Capital.
Maps of the Election of 1824.

Home Work Assignments

Homework 1.
Homework 2.
Homework 3.
Homework 4.
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Last Modified: 1/5/15