Game theory, legislation, and the multiple meanings of equality

Game theory studies encounters (or games) between two or more players in wh ich each has a clearly defined choice of strategies and in which there are well-established payoffs from the potential outcomes. In this Article, Prof essor Crump examines several different types of games and addresses whether any of them, or game theory in general, has real-world applications in the legislative realm. He concludes that while game theory does not offer many firm answers about legislation, the strategies examined by the discipline help to illuminate many of the problems raised by legislation that affects equality.