Politics In The View Of Game Theory

In1960s, British anthropologist, Frederick George Bailey, which interoperated social political phenomenon in different cultures using rich materials of Anthropology and he studied this from the view of game theory.In his discussing of political game theory, politics is a competitive game and people who participated in it should follow the normative and pragmatic rules and use them flexibly so that they can ensure the validity of their behavior and eventually reach or close to their purpose with maximum degree. As an anthropologist, the research methods that Bailey adopted are historical and empirical. He analyzed the Orissa’s politics in detail and also made his own viewpoint about the fourth and the fifth republic of France based on mass of historical data, and he also referenced and thought deeply of other scholars’correlative studies. The political game which this paper attempts to explain is trying to find the universality behind the behavior by researching and analyzing the political behavior patterns in the political arena. In this way, this article can offer a new possible approach for people to understand and recognize politics.