10 Game Theory

10.1 Introduction

10.2 Background

10.3 Method: setup/overview

10.4 Method: detail

10.5 Applications

10.6 Advantages of Method

10.7 Disadvantages of Method

10.8 Broader significance/use in political science

10.9 Conclusion

10.10 Application Questions

10.11 Key Terms

  • cooperative games

  • noncooperative games

  • strategies

  • payoff

  • expected payoff

  • constant sum games

  • evolutionary games

  • common knowledge

  • equilibrium

  • nash equilibrium

  • pareto efficient

  • dominant strategy

  • dominated strategy

  • Prisoner’s dilemma

  • zero sum

  • rational

  • signal

10.12 Answers to Application Questions