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The majoritarian conception of democracy implies that counter-majoritarian institutions such
as federalism—and even representative institutions—are derogations from democracy. The …

This article evaluates, by drawing on Barry's distinction between 'power'and 'luck', the
predictive accuracy of competing bargaining models. We explore whether models that take …

Cooperative game theory deals with situations where objectives of participants of the game
are partially cooperative and partially conflicting. It is in the interest of participants to …

This paper analyzes the a priori influence of the European Parliament (EP) and the Council
of Ministers (CM) on legislation of the European Union adopted under its codecision …

The last twenty years have seen considerable discussion about the role and future of the
state. The intention of this book is to contribute to this debate by examining the relationship …

This paper proposes a unified framework that integrates the traditional index-based
approach and the competing non-cooperative approach to power analysis. It rests on a …

Models of Political Economy will introduce students to the basic methodology of political
economics. It covers all core theories as well as new developments including: decision …

An axiomatic characterization of 'a Banzhaf score'notion is provided for a class of games
called (j, k) simple games with a numeric measure associated to the output set, ie, games …

This article replies to the claim that preference-based power indices are impossible and that
preferences should be ignored when assessing actors' influence in different interactions …