In this paper, scandals are considered as social mutants: they challenge the equilibrium status quo of a society that is embodied in its value system and its institutions. After a brief discussion of Ken Binmore's evolutionary theory of a social value equilibrium, we present the basic concepts...

Zunächst werden Hintergrund und Motivtion skizziert, auf denen die vorliegende Publikation basiert. Dazu zählen auch eine kurze Darstellung der Arbeiten von Waldgrave und von Clausewitz. Eine Diskussion des Zusammenhangs von Kunst, Spiel und Spieltheorie schließt sich an.

This introductory note discusses the main arguments that motivated the growing interest in power measures: the substantial growth in the application of power indices to political institutions, especially the European Union, the intensive discussion of the monotonicity properties of various...

The paper discusses the substitution of mergeability by the weighted monotonicity property in the definition of the Public Good Index. The cardinality of sets, implicit to the measurement of power, can thus be related to comparing sets and relations of counting and set inclusion. This allows for...