players are the parties and the value of a coalition may be 1 or 0 depending on the ability of the coalition to pass a motion … or not. In this paper we introduce general weighted voting games, where the value of a coalition is a random variable. We …

players are the parties and the value of a coalition may be 1 or 0 depending on the ability of the coalition to pass a motion … or not. In this paper we introduce general weighted voting games, where the value of a coalition is a random variable. We …

. We concentrate on the non-cooperative bargaining foundation of coalition formation, and therefore, we adopt a two … (1989). Afterwards, coalitions play the contest game of Esteban and Ray (1999) within the resulting coalition structure of … the first stage. We find that the grand coalition forms whenever the distribution of the bargaining power in the coalition …