In this article, we analyse the distribution of voting power in governing coalitions of the German Laender (states). In a first step, we use the number of votes of parties in a parliament to determine the voting power of the parties. Based on these results, we apply the <inline-formula> <inline-graphic xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xlink:href="rael_a_797548_o_ilm0001.gif"/> </inline-formula>-power index (Casajus,...

In this paper, we employ the coalition structure approach of cooperative game theory to analyse three problems. First, we group local authorities in special purpose associations in an optimal way. Second, we use the PCore (Casajus, A, Tutic, A (<CitationRef CitationID="CR4">2007</CitationRef>) <ExternalRef> <RefSource>http://www.uni-leipzig.de/~micro/pcore.pdf</RefSource> <RefTarget Address="http://www.uni-leipzig.de/~micro/pcore.pdf" TargetType="URL"/>...</refsource></externalref></citationref>