POLSCI 1AA3 Lecture 1: Lecture 1 - What is Politics
10 Oct 2017
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Politics includes, but is not limited to, the actions of government. Government has to do with compulsion not voluntary decision making. Government is a specialized activity of those individuals that make and enforce public decisions that are binding upon the whole community (dickerson and flanagan p4). Government, then, is the institutional apparatus that makes and enforces rules on society. Answer: game theory ---> the prisoner"s dilemma (economics) Prisoner"s dilemma (one type of game scenario) asks the question of how individuals are likely to act. Assume that these rational people live in an environment where there is no authority in place to enforce agreements. C = cooperate with the other prisoner (keeps quiet) D = detect on other prisoner (rat her out) Payoffs: d,c = o years, c,c = 1 year, d,d = 5 years, c,d = 10 years. The result of the game: people behaving rationally on an individual level can generate.
