Game Theory in Political Science. Our focus will be on American political scientist William H. Riker (1920-1993). We want … to show how Riker used game theory and adapted it to fulfill his disciplinary agenda, contrasting the main trends in … postwar American Political Science. Our thesis is that, in doing so, Riker stressed some aspects of the theory that differed …

The concept of 'the core' originates in cooperative game theory and its introduction to economics in the 1960s as a … basis for proofs of existence of general equilibrium is one of the earliest attempts to use game theory to address big …. However, use of the core eventually waned and the concept faded into the backdrop of economic theory. This paper makes use of …