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Campaign Decision-Making In New Mexico, Sam A. Carnes Jr.

Political Science ETDs

The purpose of this study is to investigate the decision-making mechanism which operated in a Democratic primary campaign for minor state office (Iieutenant-governor, attorney-general, secretary of state, land commissioner, and corporation commissioner) in New Mexico in 1970. Though the study is primarily a case study, the particular campaign is cast in the framework of game theory, utilizing some of the conceptual tools of game theory and analyzed in terms of players, strategies, communications, the payoff system, and the game environment.

A detailed description of the campaign setting or environment is included. This game factor is delineated into the political culture …

Agrarian Reform And The Modernization Of Chile, Donald J. Planty

Political Science ETDs

This paper is designed to show what happens when reform occurs, understanding that the probability of occurrence on a wide scale is constantly becoming greater. While the traditional society in Chile remains little changed, there are some isolated but interesting experiments in land reform taking place. In this monograph we will analyze some of them to determine what problems confront the reform institutions and new colonists who have been given land. This approach assumes that the political decision to reform has been taken - which, indeed, it has on the experiments we will describe. Even though reform is not a …