Political complexity : nonlinear models of politics / edited by Diana Richards.

Nonlinear modeling: all things suffer change / Diana Richards -- part 1. Spatial nonlinearity: optimization and search. Consequences of nonlinear preferences in a federal system / Ken Kollman, John H. Miller, and Scott E. Page. Landscapes as analogues of political phenomena / D. Scott Bennett -- part 2. Temporal nonlinearity: complexity over time. Episodic nonlinear event detection: political epochs in exchange rates / Chris Brooks, Melvin J. Hinich, and Robert E. Molyneux. Congressional campaign contributions, district service, and electoral outcomes in the United States: statistical tests of a formal game model with nonlinear dynamics / Walter R. Mebane Jr. I know you know he or she knows we know you know they know: common knowledge and the unpredictability of informational cascades / Susanne Lohmann. Nonlinear dynamics in games: convergence and stability in international environmental agreements / Diana Richards -- part 3. Functional nonlinearity: networks and patterns. Stochastic prediction and estimation of