Political Science 2230E Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Strategic Dominance, Zero-Sum Game, Henry Morgentaler
19 Jan 2018
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Game theory: comes under rational choice, think of politics as a type of game, players, rules, strategies, pay offs, solutions, players. Solution: the set of playoffs that are likely to occur if all the rational players played rationally, equilibrium. Both predicted the same thing, both had dominant strategy. One wanted a, one wanted b, this ended in a solution. Sometimes though, there can be games where only one person has a dominant strategy. Person b: minimize losses - picks -3 over -4. Zero sum games; 3, -3, = 0: variable-sum games; 6, 4 = 10, dominated strategies, mixed strategy solutions; Constitution act, 1982 + charter of rights and freedoms: r, v. vriend (1998, alberta individual rights protection act, court making law. Treaty negotiations as a game: number of players, multiple outcomes. Fed gov: wants certainty and finality, wants to settle the land statement, so it can pursue economic development. Aboriginal groups: want to maximize over their lands.
