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Power, Voting, and Voting Power: 30 Years After

  • Comprehensive overview over the development and state-of-the-art of research on power and voting power
  • Revisits results of the seminal volume on the same topic, published in 1982
  • Provides wide access to important papers published first in the journal “Homo Oeconomicus”
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

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Table of contents (39 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvi
  2. Reflections on Power, Voting, and Voting Power

    • Manfred J. Holler, Hannu Nurmi
    Pages 1-24
  3. Power

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 25-25
    2. Social Power and Negative Freedom

      • Ian Carter
      Pages 27-62
    3. Causation and the Measurement of Power

      • Matthew Braham
      Pages 63-69
  4. Voting

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 73-73
    2. Models and Reality: The Curious Case of the Absent Abstention

      • Dan S. Felsenthal, Moshé Machover
      Pages 73-86
    3. List Apparentements in Local Elections: A Lottery

      • Friedrich Pukelsheim, Peter Leutgäb
      Pages 123-135
    4. Voting and Power

      • Annick Laruelle, Federico Valenciano
      Pages 137-149
    5. Minimax Multi-District Apportionments

      • Gianfranco Gambarelli, Arsen Palestini
      Pages 169-186
    6. Gridlock or Leadership in U.S. Electoral Politics

      • Evan Schnidman, Norman Schofield
      Pages 187-227
  5. The Measurement of Power

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 229-229
    2. A Review of Some Recent Results on Power Indices

      • J. M. Alonso-Meijide, B. Casas-Méndez, M. G. Fiestras-Janeiro
      Pages 231-245
    3. Power, Cooperation Indices and Coalition Structures

      • Rafel Amer, Francesc Carreras
      Pages 247-263
    4. The Power of a Spatially Inferior Player

      • Mika Widgrén, Stefan Napel
      Pages 265-281
    5. On the Nucleolus as a Power Index

      • Maria Montero
      Pages 283-299
    6. Coalition Configurations and the Public Good Index

      • José M. Alonso-Meijide, Balbina Casas-Méndez, M. Gloria Fiestras-Janeiro, Manfred J. Holler, Andreas Nohn
      Pages 301-313

About this book

The developments over a thirty-year time span in the study of power, especially voting power, are traced in this book, which provides an up-to-date overview of applications of n-person game theory to the study of power in multimember bodies. Other theories that shed light on power distribution (e.g. aggregation theory) are treated as well. The book revisits the themes discussed in the well-known 1982 publication "Power, Voting and Voting Power" (edited by Manfred J. Holler). Thirty years later this essential topic has been taken up again and many of the authors from its predecessor participate here again in discussing the state-of-the-art, demonstrating the achievements of three decades of intensive research, and pointing the way to key issues for future work.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Institute of SocioEconomics, Department of Economics, University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany

    Manfred J Holler

  • Department of Political Science and, Contemporary History, University of Turku, Turku, Finland

    Hannu Nurmi

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eBook USD 129.00
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Softcover Book USD 169.99
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Hardcover Book USD 169.99
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