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Apr 19, 2024
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POLS 4070 - Strategic Decision-Making
Using a wide range of cases – the Cold War, resource depletion, political campaigns, and legislative politics – this course will engage students in the construction and analysis of strategic interaction. Students will assess the public value of private and official actions and learn to discover Nash Equilibrium and Subgame-Perfect Equilibrium.
Requisites: 18 hours in POLS and Sr and Warning: No credit for both this course and the following (always deduct credit for first course taken): ECON 3020
Credit Hours: 3
OHIO BRICKS Capstone: Capstone or Culminating Experience
General Education Code (students who entered prior to Fall 2021-22): 3
Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken two times excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 lecture
Grades: Eligible Grades: A-F,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I
Learning Outcomes: - Students will be able to analyze the relationship between individual actions and social outcomes, including analysis of their own participation in the society and culture in which they live.
- Students will be able to apply strategic principles to cases in politics, policy, and public administration.
- Students will be able to compute optimality under conditions of uncertainty in politics, policy, and public administration.
- Students will be able to demonstrate the intellectual skills list above along a mastery-based path over conceptual problems of increasing complexity.
- Students will be able to distinguish expected value and expected utility, as applied in political science.
- Students will be able to solve both simultaneous and sequential games with an emphasis on public goods and resources.
- Students will be able to synthesize knowledge of strategic interaction across subfields of political science.
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