Voting Power Indices enable the analysis of the distribution of power in a legislature or voting body which uses … weighted voting. Although the approach, based on co-operative game theory, has been known for a long time it has not been very …

We develop a definition of equilibrium for agenda formation in general voting settings. The definition is independent … of any protocol. We show that the set of equilibrium outcomes for any Pareto efficient voting rule is uniquely determined …. We also show that for such voting rules, if preferences are strict then the set of equilibrium outcomes coincides with …

Voting Power Indices enable the analysis of the distribution of power in a legislature or voting body in which …

In general in an organization whose system of governance involves weighted voting, a member's weight in terms of the …

ownership is relatively dispersed. Typically the largest shareholder in any large listed company is likely to own a voting …) All but the very largest shareholdings are too small to have any real voting power. The question of voting power is the …

This paper examines the system of Qualified Majority Voting, used by the Council of Ministers of the European Union … Coleman to make two analyses: (1) the question of the voting power of member countries from the point of view of fairness, and …

voting games. For K > 3 alternatives and n > 3 voters, we find sufficient conditions for the game to be dominance …

In a model of majority voting with common values and costly but voluntary participation, we show that in the vicinity … voting with compulsory participation can Pareto dominate majority voting with voluntary participation. Finally, we show that … negative voting externality identified by Borgers(2001) in the context of private values is always dominated by a positive …

rule voting games. The scoring rules we study include Plurality rule, Approval voting, Negative Plurality Rule, Borda rule … and Relative Utilitarianism. We provide a classification of scoring rule voting games according to whether the sufficient …