Scott de Marchi

Michael Laver

This book provides tractable computational analyses of the crucial but complex processes of government formation and survival.

The Governance Cycle in Parliamentary Democracies

Michael Laver examines how the giving of exotic gifts in early modern Japan facilitated Dutch trade by ascribing legitimacy to the shogunal government and by playing into the shogun's desire to create a worldview centered on a Japanese tributary state. The book reveals how formal and informal gift exchange also created a smooth working relationship between the Dutch and the Japanese bureaucracy, allowing the politically charged issue of foreign trade to proceed relatively uninterrupted for over two centuries. Based mainly on Dutch diaries and official Dutch East India Company records, as well as exhaustive secondary research conducted in Dutch, English, and Japanese, this new study fills an important gap in our knowledge of European-Japanese relations. It will also be of great interest to anyone studying the history of material culture and cross-cultural relations in a global context.

Gift Giving and Diplomacy

The Dutch East India Company in Early Modern Japan

'Private Desires, Political Action' is a masterly & exceptionally clear survey of the fast expanding and notoriously difficult field of rational choice theory.

An Invitation to the Politics of Rational Choice

Private Desires, Political Action

Social interactions are rich, complex, and dynamic. One way to understand these is to model interactions that fascinate us. Some of the more realistic and powerful models are computer simulations. Simple, elegant and powerful, tools are available in user-friendly free software to help you design, build and run your own models of social interactions that intrigue you, and do this on the most basic laptop computer. Focusing on a well-known model of housing segregation, this Element is about how to unleash that power, setting out the fundamentals of what is now known as 'agent based modeling'.

Fundamentals

Agent-Based Models of Social Life

Michael J. Laver

Kenneth A. Shepsle

Making and Breaking Governments theorizes on how parties create, maintain, or replace new governments.

Michael Laver

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