In this article, we analyse the distribution of voting power in governing coalitions of the German Laender (states). In a first step, we use the number of votes of parties in a parliament to determine the voting power of the parties. Based on these results, we apply the <inline-formula> <inline-graphic xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xlink:href="rael_a_797548_o_ilm0001.gif"/> </inline-formula>-power index (Casajus,...

In this article, we employ team games (Hernández-Lamoneda and Sánchez-Sánchez, 2010) and the Shapley (1953) value to analyse the performance/importance of players in teams of the Bundesliga (German football league) in the season 2012/2013.