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Das Phänomen der Macht ist seit jeher ein Faszinosum. Es scheint im menschlichen Dasein allgegenwärtig zu sein, und es … der (theoretischen) Annäherung an dieses Phänomen gegeben, und es besteht dernicht unbegründete Verdacht, dass Macht zu … befriedigende theoretische Aufarbeitung der Macht allerdings bis heute aus. Die Ökonomik hat das Thema Macht bislang eher …
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Hegemony is a central feature of contemporary international politicsbut it remains seriously under-theorized. We draw on cooperative game theoryto represent and analyze different aspects of hegemony. After developing ageneral conception of hegemony, we analyze the circumstances under which...
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This paper develops a theory of the allocation of authority between two parties that produce impure public goods. We show that the optimal allocation depends on technological factors, the parties' valuations of the goods produced, and the degree of impurity of these goods. When the degree of...
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This paper discusses institutional reforms that might strengthen the role of the European Parliament in the policymaking process of the European Union. Using simple game theory, the paper analyzes the working properties of the different implementation procedures that are known as 'comitology'....
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Gemessen an ihrer Bevölkerungszahl sind die kleinen Staaten gegenwärtig im Ministerrat der EU bei Abstimmungen übervertreten. Welche Auswirkungen ergeben sich hieraus für die Machtverteilung im Ministerrat? Wie ändern sich die Verhältnisse durch die Erweiterung der Europäische Union?
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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 actors. While such an analysis informs us about...
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This paper provides a co-operative as well as a non-cooperative analysis of weighted majority games. The co-operative solution concept introduced here, the Stable Demand Set, yields a meaningful selection within the Mas-Colell Bargaining Set, it contains the Core, it eliminates the "dominated"...
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