Political Game Theory Political Game Theory The following games are interesting because they abstract the "essence" of various forms of political interaction. They are even more interesting when you attempt to formulate (good) computer algorithms to play them. I became acquainted with most of these games at an excellent 3rd yr philosophy course "Games and Decisions" given by John Collins and Frank Jackson at Monash University. Except for Barktok these are drawn from Michael Laver's book "Playing Politics".
Primitive Politics - a nasty game where only the "bank" is the winner.
Coalitions - an ugly expose of internal party politics.
Log Rolling - a game which examines bargaining over multiple issues,
also quite a fun card game.
$100 Dollar Game - a very simple game to examine cooperation among
large groups.
Bartok - a very simple Uno-like game in which the rules change.