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Power, Voting, and Voting Power

  • Conference proceedings
  • © 1982

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Editors:
  1. Manfred J. Holler

    1. Volkswirtschaftliches Institut der Universität München, München, Germany

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Table of contents (25 papers)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages 1-12
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  2. Introduction

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 13-13
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    2. An Introduction to the Analysis of Power, Voting, and Voting Power

      • M. J. Holler
      Pages 15-30

  3. The Idea of Power

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 31-31
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    2. Power in Game Forms

      • N. R. Miller
      Pages 33-51

    3. A Philosophical View of Power

      • H. Kliemt
      Pages 52-64

    4. Power and Profit in Hierarchical Organizations

      • D. C. Mueller
      Pages 65-77

    5. Equivalent Concepts of Power in Voting Games

      • D. Wittman
      Pages 78-79

    6. Attribution and Social Power

      • H.-D. Schneider
      Pages 80-91

    7. Power: An Amorphous Term — Diverse Conceptual Approaches

      • H. Behrens
      Pages 92-104

  5. Concepts of Power Measurement

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 201-201
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    2. The Problem of the Right Distribution of Voting Power

      • H. Nurmi
      Pages 203-212

    3. An Axiomated Family of Power Indices for Simple n-Person Games

      • E. W. Packel, J. Deegan Jr.
      Pages 213-221
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About this book

Any normative theory of democracy involves notions of equity, which are supposed to guide collective decisions. On the other hand, a descriptive theory of any decision-making body must take into account the distribution of power in that body. The development of collective decision theory along two different paths reflects these two foci of interest in the theory of democracy. One direction can be subsumed under the theory of social choice, the other under the theory of games. In the theory of social choice, the participants are characterized only by their preferences among a set of alternatives (candidates, courses of action, etc. ). They do not choose among these alternatives. They only submit their preferences to some central authority ("the Society"), which then chooses among the alternatives in accordance with some fixed rule of aggregating the preferences. On the other hand, the point of departure in the theory of games is a set of actors, each of whom can choose between alternative courses of action (strategies). The totality of choices results in an outcome, which gener­ ally has different utilities for the different actors. In this book, both approaches are presented in selected papers, from which the reader can get an excellent overview of the state of the art. Both branches of formal decision theory, the theory of social choice and the theory of games, were developed in mathematical language, but very little technical mathematical knowledge is required to follow the arguments.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Volkswirtschaftliches Institut der Universität München, München, Germany

    Manfred J. Holler

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Power, Voting, and Voting Power

  • Editors: Manfred J. Holler

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-00411-1

  • Publisher: Physica Heidelberg

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 1982

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-662-00413-5Published: 15 August 2012

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-662-00411-1Published: 06 December 2012

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: VI, 332

  • Topics: Public Economics, Political Science

  • Industry Sectors: Finance, Business & Banking

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