This introductory note discusses the main arguments that motivated the growing interest in power measures: the substantial growth in the application of power indices to political institutions, especially the European Union, the intensive discussion of the monotonicity properties of various...

In recent years, publications on power indices and coalition formation have multiplied. Obviously, the application of these concepts to political institutions, more specifically, to the analysis of the European Union and, as it seems, the election of the President of the United States is getting...