Do you like getting your own way, making money, cheating your friends, reneging on your promises? Try your hand as a politician in Michael Laver's series of entertaining games. From games such as Agenda and Coalitions to three-sided soccer, you can fight elections, overthrow governments, andmake deals, all in the interests of winning or holding on to power. Ideal for anyone interested in politics, politics students, or those who like playing games, the double-dealing is designed to mirror real-life political situations. In both the world of politics and the world of games, outcomes are decided by calculated interactions between the players as theybalance team tactics against self-interest, weigh up the risks, or use their bargaining power. Whether you are securing public funding to support your particular project or coming out top in the opinion polls, the means by which you can win can be fair or foul. Anyone can have fun with the games,and by playing politics get a feel for the fascinating complexity of the real thing.