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Power, Freedom, and Voting

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Table of contents (22 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiv
  2. Power Indices Methodology: Decisiveness, Pivots, and Swings

    • FrantiÅ¡ek Turnovec, Jacek W. Mercik, Mariusz Mazurkiewicz
    Pages 23-37
  3. Further Reflections on the Expediency and Stability of Alliances

    • Dan S. Felsenthal, Moshé Machover
    Pages 39-55
  4. Positional Power in Hierarchies

    • René van den Brink, Frank Steffen
    Pages 57-81
  5. A Public Help Index

    • Cesarino Bertini, Gianfranco Gambarelli, Izabella Stach
    Pages 83-98
  6. Modified Power Indices for Indirect Voting

    • Guillermo Owen, Ines Lindner, Bernard Grofman
    Pages 119-138
  7. Coalition Formation, Agenda Selection, and Power

    • Friedel Bolle, Yves Breitmoser
    Pages 185-208
  8. Democratic Defences and (De-)Stabilisations

    • Werner Güth, Hartmut Kliemt, Stefan Napel
    Pages 209-226
  9. The Instability of Power Sharing

    • Steven J. Brams, D. Marc Kilgour
    Pages 227-243
  10. The Power to Propose versus the Power to Oppose

    • Donald A. Wittman
    Pages 245-258
  11. Closeness Counts in Social Choice

    • Tommi Meskanen, Hannu Nurmi
    Pages 289-306
  12. Freedom, Coercion, and Ability

    • Keith Dowding, Martin van Hees
    Pages 307-323
  13. Guarantees in Game Forms

    • Marlies Ahlert
    Pages 325-341
  14. Individual Control in Decision-Making and Attitudes Towards Inequality: The Case of Italy

    • Sebastiano Bavetta, Antonio Cognata, Dario Maimone Ansaldo Patti, Pietro Navarra
    Pages 343-363
  15. The Principle of Fairness: A Game Theoretic Model

    • Luciano Andreozzi
    Pages 365-383

About this book

Power, Freedom, and Voting is an interdisciplinary book that presents a comprehensive insight into current research by economists, mathematicians, philosophers and political scientists on three intimately related concepts that are at the heart of theories of democracy and social welfare. The editors have brought together some of the leading scholars in the different fields to create a distinctive volume. Chapters include contributions on foundational and methodological issues in the definition and measurement of power and freedom and empirical studies of power and coalition formation in voting bodies. The volume also contains contributions that make an effort to bridge the gaps between different disciplinary approaches, including one on the importance of Machiavelli’s writing as a reference point for modern political theory, and others on the related concepts of fairness and responsibility. A majority of the chapters make use of game theory.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Faculty of Philosophy, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands

    Matthew Braham

  • The University of Liverpool Management School, Liverpool, UK

    Frank Steffen

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