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Power, Voting, and Voting Power: 30 Years After
Holler, Manfred J. - 2013
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...
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Regional Economic Analysis of Power, Elections, and Secession
Hosoe, Moriki (ed.) - 2018
The main object of this book is to explain some of the mechanisms of integration and secession among regions from the point of view of game theory. To attain this goal, the incentives of regions in a country to unite or to secede and the conditions in the way for the member countries of a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012397138
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Economic Signals : Prize Promotions, Anonymous Giving, and Political Advertisements
Tamura, Masaoki - 2018
This Brief sheds new light on three specific aspects of economic behavior - companies offering prize promotions, individuals making anonymous donations, and politicians creating political advertisements. These are considered signals that firms send to consumers, donors send to others, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012397238
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Voting Power and Procedures : Essays in Honour of Dan Felsenthal and Moshé Machover
Fara, Rudolf - 2014
This collection of essays honouring Dan Felsenthal and Moshé Machover reconsiders foundational aspects of the measurement of voting power. The specific case of voting power in two-tier systems - for instance the US system and the EU system - is analysed. Furthermore major power indices -...
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Designing Democracy : Ideas for Better Rules
Gersbach, Hans (contributor) - 2005
This book presents a number of ideas for drawing up new rules to improve the functioning of democracies. The first part examines ways of combining incentive contracts with democratic elections. Such a judicious combination can alleviate a wide range of political failures without impairing the...
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Wahlen und Konjunkturzyklen
Markwardt, Gunther (contributor) - 2009
Kaum ein Thema im weiten Feld der Politischen Ökonomie ist so populär und zugleich so problembeladen wie das der politischen Konjunkturzyklen. Die theoretische Literatur sieht in der Wahlunsicherheit eine zentrale Einflussgröße. Vorhandene empirische Studien vernachlässigen diesen...
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Mathematics and Democracy : Recent Advances in Voting Systems and Collective Choice
Simeone, Bruno (contributor);  … - 2006
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Gender and Family in European Economic Policy : Developments in the New Millennium
Auth, Diana (ed.); Hergenhan, Jutta (ed.);  … - 2017
This collection explores how pioneering gender equality policies have shaped women's economic presence in Europe since 2000. Equal pay policies, parental leave reforms, corporate quotas and electoral quotas have raised pressing questions about the effectiveness in promoting equal participation,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012397353
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Votes, Parties, and Seats : A Quantitative Analysis of Indian Parliamentary Elections, 1962–2014
Borooah, Vani Kant - 2016
'This starkly lucid and timely book absorbs the nuances of the largest festival – the elections – of the world …, detailing the election result for each candidate, for all the constituencies, in every Lok Sabha (the lower house of India …'s Bicameral-Parliament) general election from 1962 to 2014. The central purpose of this interrogation of data is to give shape to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014020366
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Voting Paradoxes and Group Coherence : The Condorcet Efficiency of Voting Rules
Gehrlein, William V. - 2011
. This reinforces the intuitive notion that strange election outcomes should become less likely as voters’ preferences become … should be chosen as the election winner, if one exists. Representations for the Condorcet Efficiency of the most common …
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