A new model for predicting policy choices: Preliminary tests

Conflict Management and Peace Science

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 65-87

  de Mesquita, Bruce Bueno ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bayesian updating; forecasting; game theory; policy analysis; policy engineering; prediction

Indexed keywords

EID: 79952301592     PISSN: 07388942     EISSN: 15499219     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0738894210388127     Document Type: Article

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