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chicken games  

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  • The game of chicken refers to (a) a stylized conflict situation, (b) a 2 x 2 game matrix that provides a simplified representation of this conflict situation, and (c) a class of real-world conflict situations for which both (a) and (b) provide oversimplified but perhaps enlightening models. In the stylized conflict situation, two juvenile delinquents position their cars at opposite ends of a deserted stretch of road. [Source: Encyclopedia of Power; Chicken Games]

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