“Politics is not a game,” Winston Churchill once said. “It is an earnest business.” And yet like any business, politics is rife with strategic challenges and opportunities that game theory can help elucidate. With that in mind, let us turn our attention to the latest glaring example of political business not getting done: the still-unfilled seat on the U.S. Supreme Court.
Applying Game Theory to the Supreme Court Confirmation Fight
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