vote independently of each other. Thus, we receive as an empirical result what the previous voting power literature assumed. …

parliaments and facilitate the formation of a coalition government. However, the clauses also introduce distortions and modify the … equality of electoral votes in an election. In order to decide to what extent these negative effects can be accepted, it is … necessary to measure the difficulties in forming a coalition government and to quantify the effects of electoral thresholds on …

) election. For this purpose, the party positions on 31 topical issues are compared with the results of recent public opinion …

, which provides an up-to-date overview of applications of n-person game theory to the study of power in multimember bodies …. Other theories that shed light on power distribution (e.g. aggregation theory) are treated as well. The book revisits the …Power -- Voting -- The Measurement of Power -- Applications of Voting Power Measures -- Voting Power in the European …