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Measuring Power And Satisfaction in Societies with Opinion Leaders: Dictator and Opinion Leader Properties

van den Brink, René; Rusinowska, Agnieszka; Steffen, Frank - 2009

A well known and established model in communication policy in sociology and marketing is that of opinion leadership. Opinion leaders are actors in a society who are able to affect the behavior of other members called followers. Hence, opinion leaders might have a considerable impact on the...

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Axiomatizations of a Positional Power Score and Measure for Hierarchies

van den Brink, René; Steffen, Frank - 2008

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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Measuring Power and Satisfaction in Societies with Opinion Leaders: An Axiomatization

van den Brink, Rene; Rusinowska, Agnieszka; Steffen, Frank - 2011

A well-known model in sociology and marketing is that of opinion leadership. Opinion leaders are actors who are able to affect the behavior of their followers. Hence, opinion leaders have some power over their followers, and they can exercise this power by influencing their followers choice of...

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Do More Powerful Interest Groups have a Disproportionate Influence on Policy?

Sharif, Zara; Swank, Otto H. - 2012

Decisions-makers often rely on information supplied by interested parties. In practice, some parties have easier access to information than other parties. In this light, we examine whether more powerful parties have a disproportionate influence on decisions. We show that more powerful parties...

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On the Measurement of Success and Satisfaction

van den Brink, René; Steffen, Frank - 2012

The main purpose of the present paper is to disentangle the mix-up of the notions of success and satisfaction which is prevailing in the voting power literature. We demonstrate that both notions are conceptually distinct, and discuss their relationship and measurement. We show that satisfaction...

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Social welfare versus inequality aversion in an incomplete contract experiment

Faravelli, Marco; Kirchkamp, Oliver; Rainer, Helmut - 2009

We explore experimentally how power asymmetries between partners affect relationship-specific investments. We find that on average players' investments are larger than equilibrium investments. In contrast to social dilemma experiments, in our experiment preferences for social welfare and those...

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What explains the rise in CEO pay in Germany? A Panel Data Analysis for 1977-2009

Fabbri, Francesca; Marin, Dalia - 2012

The compensation of executive board members in Germany has become a highly controversial topic since Vodafone's hostile takeover of Mannesmann in 2000 and it is again in the spotlight since the outbreak of the financial crisis of 2009. Based on unique panel data evidence of the 500 largest firms...

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Promiscuous elites and economic development

Brezis, Elise S. - 2012

This paper analyzes the interconnection between elites and its effects on economic growth. For decades, the bureaucratic elite has been joining the business elite after leaving office, and this in growing numbers. This relationship has been termed the revolving door in English, pantouflage in...

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Die Verteilung der Abstimmungsmacht im Bundesrat

Hiller, Tobias; Auer, Benjamin R. - In: Wirtschaftsdienst 92 (2012) 4, pp. 267-273

Die Stimmanteile der Bundesländer im Bundesrat basieren auf einem Stufenmodell in Abhängigkeit von der Einwohnerzahl. Da die Abstimmungsmacht nicht dem relativen Stimmanteil eines Bundeslands entspricht, analysieren die Autoren die Verteilung der Abstimmungsmacht im Bundesrat mit Hilfe von...

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Conceptualizing power in the context of climate change: A multi-theoretical perspective on structure, agency & power relations

Stör, Lorenz - 2017

, Macht und Herrschaft in ihrem komplexen Zusammenspiel von akteursbezogenem Handeln und strukturellen Faktoren zu begreifen … Aspekte von Macht anhand der klassischen Gegenüberstellung von Struktur und Handlung. Die gängige positivistische … als ein wissenschaftstheoretischer Ansatz, um sowohl Struktur als auch Handlung als Formen der Macht anzuerkennen und zu …

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