Deep State

• In Event: Formal Models of Electoral Campaigns and Political Communication

Brief Overview

We employ game-theoretic analysis to explore how the official's belief in the "deep state" might arise. We show that instead of being a product of the vicious incentives of the bureaucratic agencies, it might result from the official's biases.

Authors

• Anna Denisenko, University of Rochester

• Catherine I. Hafer, New York University

• Dimitri Landa, New York University