Political Science 30: Politics and Strategy
Political Science 30: Politics and Strategy (Winter 2008, UCLA). Taught by UCLA's Professor Kathleen Bawn, this course is an introduction to study of
strategic interaction in political applications. Use of game theory and other formal modeling strategies to understand politics are also studied in order to
gain a better understanding of politics at large.
| Lecture 01 - Political Economy, Strategy and Social Science |
| Lecture 02 - Game Theory: Setting Up a Game, Solving Game Trees |
| Lecture 03 - Pay-offs and Utility, Solving Game Trees, Scope of Game Theory |
| Lecture 04 - Action/Strategy/Equilibrium, Scope of Game Theory |
| Lecture 05 - Variable Pay-offs, Evaluating Outcomes |
| Lecture 06 - Variable Pay-offs, Evaluating Outcomes, Strategy and Uncertainty |
| Lecture 07 - Foreign Aid Game and Pareto Efficiency, Uncertainty about Outcomes |
| Lecture 08 - Uncertainty about Outcomes, Uncertainty about Preferences |
| Lecture 09 - Uncertainty about Preferences |
| Lecture 10 - Simultaneous Games, Games with more than two options |
| Lecture 11 - Games with more than two options, Nash Equilibrium |
| Lecture 12 - Cops and Robbers, Finding MSNE |
| Lecture 13 - Interpreting MSNE, How to Deter Crime? |
| Lecture 14 - MSNE Wrap-up, Sequential Games in Normal Form, Repeated Games |
| Lecture 15 - Repeated Interaction, Comparing Pay-offs across time |
| Lecture 16 - Contingent Strategies in Repeated PD, Cooperation in Repeated PD? |
| Lecture 17 - Cooperation in Repeated PD, Multiple Equilibria in Repeated PD |
| Lecture 18 - Cooperation in Repeated PD, Multiple Equilibria in Repeated PD |
| Lecture 19 - Multiple Equilibria, Sample Problem |