Power, Freedom, and Voting

Power, Freedom, and Voting edited by Matthew Braham, Frank Steffen.

Power, Freedom, and Voting is an interdisciplinary book that presents a comprehensive insight into current research by economists, mathematicians, philosophers and political scientists on three intimately related concepts that are at the heart of theories of democracy and social welfare. The editors...

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Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Braham, Matthew (Editor), Steffen, Frank (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2008.
Edition:1st ed. 2008.
Series:Springer eBook Collection.
Subjects:
Economics.
Management science.
Economic theory.
Political science.
Political philosophy.
Philosophy and social sciences.
Electronic resources (E-books)
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Table of Contents:
  • Social Power and Social Causation: Towards a Formal Synthesis
  • Power Indices Methodology: Decisiveness, Pivots, and Swings
  • Further Reflections on the Expediency and Stability of Alliances
  • Positional Power in Hierarchies
  • A Public Help Index
  • Shapley-Shubik vs. Strategic Power: Live from the UN Security Council
  • Modified Power Indices for Indirect Voting
  • Pivotal Voting Theory: The 1993 Clinton Health Care Reform Proposal in the U.S. Congress
  • Coalition Formation Theories Revisited: An Empirical Investigation of Aumann’s Hypothesis
  • Coalition Formation, Agenda Selection, and Power
  • Democratic Defences and (De-)Stabilisations
  • The Instability of Power Sharing
  • The Power to Propose versus the Power to Oppose
  • Divergence in the Spatial Stochastic Model of Voting
  • Closeness Counts in Social Choice
  • Freedom, Coercion, and Ability
  • Guarantees in Game Forms
  • Individual Control in Decision-Making and Attitudes Towards Inequality: The Case of Italy
  • The Principle of Fairness: A Game Theoretic Model
  • Power, Productivity, and Profits
  • Trust, Responsibility, Power, and Social Capital
  • Exploiting The Prince.

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