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 …

and power measure for one of the most studied decision models, namely that of binary voting. …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 …

We study voting over higher education finance in an economy with risk averse households who are heterogeneous in income …

interest in those parameters, voting patterns suggest significant influence of cooperative orientation, political attitudes …

Consider a voting procedure where countries, states, or districts comprising a union each elect representatives who … characterization of the efficient voting rule in terms of the weights assigned to different districts and the voting threshold (how … correlation structure of agents preferences, we analyze how voting weights relate to the population size of a country. We then …

economics. This paper explores voting on a scheme of intergroup competition, which facilitates cooperation in a social dilemma … outcome depends strongly on specific voting rules of institutional choice. If the majority decides, competition is almost … always adopted. If likely losers from competition have veto power, it is often not, and substantial gains in efficiency are …

are related to distribution of voting power in the EU Council of Ministers as reflecting the influence of member states … political parties, is there a difference between a priori voting power of national groups in the case of 'national' coordination … methodology is used to evaluate voting power of national party groups in the cases of partisan and national coordination of voting …

square roots of population. Such a distribution should guarantee the same indirect voting power to each EU citizen, measured … by Penrose-Banzhaf index of voting power. In this paper we attempt to clarify this concept. … representations in union of states, is discussed. This concept, introduced into discussion about voting rights in the Council of …

qualityhas been acquired or not, we compare the performance of a delegation structure with that oftwo voting procedures …. Delegation makes one's acceptance decision pivotal by definition.The decisiveness of one's vote in a voting procedure depends on …