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Scott Gehlbach, "Formal Models of Domestic Politics" (Cambridge UP, 2021)

New Books in Mathematics

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The Evolution of Political Science in the United States

10 years is probably the right amount of time in which to let a textbook be used before it's it's updated. The first edition covered models of electoral competition, models of special interest politics we've talked about both of those a little bit. Models of what's called veto players meaning actors who have the ability to block change from the status quo one way or another so you can think of each of those actors as a veto player in some sense. So for each of these existing topics the second edition includes new material either new models that are covered in the main text or just as important new exercises.

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