one of the actions. By definition opinion leaders have some power over their followers, and they exercise this power by … satisfaction and power scores which allow us to analyze the actors' satisfaction and power with respect to the collective choice …

affect the behavior of their followers. Hence, opinion leaders have some power over their followers, and they can exercise … this power by influencing their followers choice of action. We study a two-action model for a society with opinion leaders … choice is made by simple majority of the actions chosen by each member. For this model we axiomatize satisfaction and power …

symmetric network we define a cooperative transferable utility game that measures the power of each coalition of positions in … the network. Applying the Shapley value to this game yields a network power measure, the beta-measure, which reflects the … power of the individual positions in the network. Applying this power distribution method iteratively yields a limit …

called inverse power problem needs to be solved. I introduce a new method to address this problem in two-tier voting settings …