Fall 2024 Political Analytics PS5020 section AU1

Strategic Thinking

Call Number 19409
Day & Time
Location
M 6:10pm-8:00pm
ONLINE ONLY
Points 0
Grading Mode Ungraded
Approvals Required None
Instructor Michael Ting
Type LECTURE
Method of Instruction On-Line Only
Course Description

Politics involves a complex interaction of competing interests.  For practitioners, it is crucial to understand how efforts are met with responses, and predicting those responses is critical to designing successful strategies.  Game theory is the formal mathematical analysis of strategic interaction across the social sciences.  This course provides a general theoretical language to the theory of games, examining the intentional thought process of rational actors in strategic environments.  Students will acquire tools for understanding the dynamics that lead to the success of a political campaign or policy-making effort.  Course topics include two-person games, dynamic games, bargaining, and signaling. Students will also examine a variety of cases.

Web Site Vergil
Department Auditing
Enrollment 2 students (2 max) as of 9:05PM Monday, December 2, 2024
Status Full
Subject Political Analytics
Number PS5020
Section AU1
Division School of Professional Studies
Open To Audit Program
Section key 20243POAN5020KAU1