This paper studies the advantages that a coalition of agents obtains by forming a voting bloc to pool their votes and … rules that aggregate preferences within the coalition. …

prevailing in the voting power literature. We demonstrate that both notions are conceptually distinct, and discuss their … canonical set-up of a simultaneous decision-making mechanism as it is predominant in the voting power literature. However, we …

agent within the winning coalition is expected to obtain a payoff share proportional to her relative bargaining power. The … contains the Core, it eliminates the "dominated" coalition structures, and has sharp implications for weighted majority games …

Power is a core concept in the analysis and design of organizations. One of the problems with the extant literature on … positional power in hierarchies is that it is mainly restricted to the analysis of power in terms of the bare positions of the …-established approaches for the analysis of power in non-hierarchical organizations such as the Banzhaf measure; and thus they are all based …

modifications: first, payoff division can only be agreed upon after the coalition has formed (two-stage bargaining); second …, negotiations in the coalition can break down, in which case a new coalition may be formed (reversible coalitions). Under the most … propoper advantage and a linear relationship between weights and ex post payoffs for all coalition members other than the …

While they use the language of game theory known measures of a priory voting power are hardly more than statistical …

evaluated. Internal impact affects the distribution of power among the member states and external impact affects power relations …

rules are examined. Internal impact affects the distribution of power among the member states and external impact affects … power relations between the main decision-making bodies in the EU. One of the main lessons of the analysis is that voting … distribution of power in the Council and inter-institutional power between the EU's decision-making bodies. …