up to date. Most of the existing studies use the Banzhaf index (for binary voting) or the Shapley-Shubik index (for … distributive politics). We argue in favor of the nucleolus as a power measure in distributive situations and an alternative to the … measures. In the second part, we analyze the power of the European citizens as measured by the nucleolus under the egalitarian …

measure religious organizations power to shape human decision making. We employ an objective measure of voters commitment to … recommendations. We find that voting recommendations do indeed matter, implying that even in a secularized world, religion plays a … crucial role in voting decisions. …

In an economic theory of voting, voters have positive or negative costs of voting in favor of a proposal and positive … or negative benefits from an accepted proposal. When votes have equal weight then simultaneous voting mostly has a unique … pure strategy Nash equilibrium which is independent of benefits. Voting with respect to (arbitrarily small) costs alone …

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 …