Power, Freedom, and Voting

Häftad, Engelska, 2010

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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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2010-10-19
Mått155 x 235 x 25 mm
Vikt680 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor438
FörlagSpringer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG
ISBN9783642092428

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Social Power and Social Causation: Towards a Formal Synthesis.- Power Indices Methodology: Decisiveness, Pivots, and Swings.- Further Reflections on the Expediency and Stability of Alliances.- Positional Power in Hierarchies.- A Public Help Index.- Shapley-Shubik vs. Strategic Power: Live from the UN Security Council.- Modified Power Indices for Indirect Voting.- Pivotal Voting Theory: The 1993 Clinton Health Care Reform Proposal in the U.S. Congress.- Coalition Formation Theories Revisited: An Empirical Investigation of Aumann’s Hypothesis.- Coalition Formation, Agenda Selection, and Power.- Democratic Defences and (De-)Stabilisations.- The Instability of Power Sharing.- The Power to Propose versus the Power to Oppose.- Divergence in the Spatial Stochastic Model of Voting.- Closeness Counts in Social Choice.- Freedom, Coercion, and Ability.- Guarantees in Game Forms.- Individual Control in Decision-Making and Attitudes Towards Inequality: The Case of Italy.- The Principle of Fairness: A Game Theoretic Model.- Power, Productivity, and Profits.- Trust, Responsibility, Power, and Social Capital.- Exploiting The Prince.