Building Better Games for National Security Policy Analysis
Towards a Social Scientific Approach
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 19928876 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Elizabeth Bartels (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Publication date | 2020-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | BOOK |
| Publisher | RAND Corporation (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.7249/rgsd437 |
| OpenAlex | W3016119601 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
This dissertation proposes an approach to game design grounded in logics of inquiry from the social sciences. National security gaming practitioners and sponsors have long been concerned that the quality of games and sponsors' ability to leverage them effectively to shape decision making is highly uneven. This research leverages literature reviews, semi-structured interviews, and archival research to develop a framework that describes ideal types of games based on the type of information they generate. This framework offers a link between existing treatments of philosophy of science and the types of tradeoffs that a designer is likely to make under each type of game. While such an approach only constitutes necessary, but not sufficient, conditions for games to inform research and policy analysis, this work aims to offer pragmatic advice to designers, sponsors and consumers about how design choices can impact what is learned from a game
Economics · Game mechanics · Game theory · Ideal (ethics) · Knowledge management · Leverage (statistics) · Management science · Multimedia · Political science · Public relations · Quality (philosophy) · Work (physics) · Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science · Digital Games and Media · Engineering
| Citations per year | 0.75 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2022 - 2026 (5) |
| Highly cited | No |