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...

Interessengruppen sehen sich einer steigenden Anzahl an konkurrierenden Gruppen und Professionalisierungstendenzen im Lobbying gegenüber. Für Lobbyisten besteht daher ein erheblicher Bedarf, ihre Einflussversuche besser auszugestalten und den Erfolg ihrer Kommunikation messbar zu machen. Um...

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. The...