Game theory is being used increasingly in political science to study strategy in areas as diverse as campaigns and elections, defense policy, and international relations.
Almost everywhere, the "Washington Consensus" free-market policies of the 1990's are regarded as failed and discredited, partly because we did not fight corruption as aggressively as we should have, and in countries as diverse as Brazil, Venezuela, Peru and Ecuador, recent elections have gone to leftists or populists who tend to make Americans deeply nervous.
But with the disappearance of a Christian center and the decline of institutional religion more generally, we lack the capacity to translate those desires into something other than what we've seen in this, the most theologically diverse of recent presidential elections — division, demonization and polarization without end.
"Our diverse and locally-run election process presents serious obstacles to carrying out large-scale cyberattacks to disrupt elections, and that standalone, disconnected voting systems present a low risk," the National Association of Secretaries of State wrote last year, in a briefing paper titled "Key Facts and Findings on Cybersecurity and Foreign Targeting of the 2016 US Elections".
The makeup of the House of Commons became more diverse in this past election.
In addition, more women and candidates of diverse backgrounds have won election in these states.
The various types of democratic rule that can be implemented should reject quick elections, as the diverse sectarian societies found in the Middle East need to be reconciled with elementary premises of political and human freedoms.
Meanwhile, the left is deliberately running more ethnically diverse candidates in the parliamentary elections next year, claiming Sarkozy's one-time "rainbow" cabinet of racially diverse women had turned out to be window dressing.
Above all, this new civic software would close the distance between the representative and the represented while involving individual citizens and diverse constituencies more meaningfully in elections where their vote really matters.
"He's going to emphasize first trying to win a big re-election with a diverse coalition behind him," Mr. Rove said.
