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The current literature standardly conceives of voting power in terms of decisiveness: the
ability to change the voting outcome by unilaterally changing one's vote. I argue that this …

Committee decisions on more than two alternatives much depend on the adopted
aggregation rule, and so does the distribution of power among committee members. We …

Many binary collective choice situations can be described as weighted simple voting games.
We introduce weighted committee games to model decisions on an arbitrary number of …

Electoral thresholds in the context of parliamentary elections are an instrument for
preventing the fragmentation of parliaments and facilitate the formation of a coalition …

In 1998 a long-lost proposal for an election law by Gottlob Frege (1848–1925) was
rediscovered in the Thüringer Universitäts-und Landesbibliothek in Jena, Germany. The …

This original and insightful book considers the ways in which public law, which emphasises
legality (the Demos), and economics, a science oriented towards the markets (the Agora) …

Voters whose yes-or-no decision never makes a difference to the outcome in a simple voting
game are known as “null players”. Luxembourg's role in the Council of Ministers during the …

We use simplicial complexes to model weighted voting games where certain coalitions are
considered unlikely or impossible. Expressions for Banzhaf and Shapley-Shubik power …

The Shapley value is commonly illustrated by roll call votes in which players support or
reject a proposal in sequence. If all sequences are equiprobable, a voter's Shapley value …