Political Economy, Social Choice and Game Theory

Dear Colleagues,

Understanding the choices made in any society or country within a political economy context requires understanding of the strategic interactions of different economic and political agents. Under these circumstances, game theory tools are used within the social choice and political economy traditions to examine the relationship between these agents to examine how these agents influence policy making within given political institutions under different political regimes. Understanding distributional conflicts in society requires modelling bargaining between players with opposing preferences and how they best respond to the actions taken by their opponents. The institutional and informational structure under which policy making takes place shapes the policy agreements reached between these agents with the influence of citizens varying across political regimes. Political economists and social choice theorists have studied elections involving voters, political parties and special interest groups in static or dynamic settings, in repeated games under different political institutions.

The aim of this Special Issue is to bring together political economy models that examine policy making under different political regimes. We invite submissions of political economy and social choice models at the theoretical and/or empirical levels, studying issues in the following areas:

• Modelling the interaction between different agents (citizens, parties, governments, levels of government) under different political regimes
• Party positioning in elections under different political regimes
• The influence of special interest groups in party’s policy positions
• Elections under different political regimes
• Bargaining between different agents or coalitions under different political regimes

Dr. Maria Gallego
Guest Editor

Manuscript Submission Information

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Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a double-anonymized peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Games is an international peer-reviewed open access semimonthly journal published by MDPI.

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