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Comment on “Energy Politics in Canada, 1980–1981: Threat Power in a Sequential Game”

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 November 2009

Jeffrey Church
Affiliation:
University of Calgary

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Copyright © Canadian Political Science Association (l'Association canadienne de science politique) and/et la Société québécoise de science politique 1993

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References

1 James, Patrick, “Energy Politics in Canada, 1980–1981: Threat Power in a Sequential Game,” this Journal 26 (1993), 3159.Google Scholar

2 Brams, S. and Hessel, M., “Threat Power in Sequential Games,” International Studies Quarterly 28 (1984), 1536.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

3 Two recent surveys are Kennan, J. and Wilson, R., “Bargaining with Private Information,” Journal of Economic LiteratureGoogle Scholar, forthcoming, and Osborne, M. and Rubinstein, A., Bargaining and Markets (Toronto: Academic Press, 1990).Google Scholar

4 For an extended non-technical discussion, see Dixit, A. and Nalebuff, B., Thinking Strategically (New York: Norton, 1992)Google Scholar, chap. 11, and for a technical discourse, Osborne, and Rubinstein, , Bargaining and MarketsGoogle Scholar, chaps. 3 and 5.

5 James, , “Energy Politics in Canada, 1980–1981,” 35, 43 and 44.Google Scholar

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8 Ibid., 18.

9 Ibid., 22.