{"product_id":"political-bargaining","title":"Political Bargaining","description":"This book brings an exciting and innovative new approach to the study of politics today.  It introduces political bargaining, a process at the heart of all political and economic exchanges in contemporary society and the very essence of politics itself, to provide a new framework and fresh insights to modern political science.\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe authors trace the prevalence of bargaining processes in politics from the abstract level of individual human interaction and the `state of nature′ to the more concrete political or institutionalized level.  \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThey introduce students to theory -- the basic models of game theory, rational choice theory and positivist approaches; practice -- the practical manifestations of political bargaining in everyday national and international political life; and process -- its setting, the interests of the players involved, the conditions and properties that affect their calculations and, consequently, their ability to obtain desired outcomes.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePolitical Bargaining\u003c\/b\u003e provides students with the basic tools for learning about and participating in politics today by richly illustrating how the authoritative allocation of scarce resources is arrived at through a complex bargaining process between competing interests in society.  It will be essential reading for student and lecturer alike across political science and the social sciences more widely.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"SAGE Publications Inc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54246798524760,"sku":"9780761952503","price":234.36,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9780761952503.jpg?v=1777785365","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/political-bargaining","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}