Power Indices and Coalition Formation - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0792373596 ISBN 13: 9780792373599

Publisher: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2001

Synopsis

In recent years, publications on power indices and coalition formation have multiplied. Obviously, the application of these concepts to political institutions, more specifically, to the analysis of the European Union and, as it seems, the election of the President of the United States is getting more and more popular. There are, however, also new theoretical instruments and perspectives that support these applications: First of all, the probabilistic model of coalition formation has to be mentioned which is made operational by the multilinear extension of the characteristic function form of coalition games. This instrument triggered off a reinterpretation of existing power indices and the formulation of new indices. This development is accompanied by an intensive discussion of the concept of power in general - what do we measure when we apply power measures? - and the properties that an adequate measure of power has to satisfy. Various concepts of monotonicity were proposed as litmus test. The discussion shows that the underlying theories of coalition formation play a decisive role.
New results will be discussed in this volume. Its contributions put flesh and blood on the theoretical innovations and their applications that led to a growing interest in power indices and coalition formation.

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Synopsis

In the last years of the 20th century, publications on power indices and coalition formation have multiplied. The application of these concepts to political institutions, more specifically, to the analysis of the European Union and, as it seems, the election of the President of the United States, is getting more and more popular. There are, however, also theoretical instruments and perspectives that support these applications. Firstly, the probabilistic model of coalition formation which is made operational by the multilinear extension of the characteristic function form of coalition games. This instrument triggered off a re-interpretation of existing power indices and the formulation of new indices. This development is accompanied by an intensive discussion of the concept of power in general - what do we measure when we apply power measures? - and the properties that an adequate measure of power has to satisfy. Various concepts of monotonicity were proposed as litmus test. The discussion shows that the underlying theories of coalition formation play a decisive role.

Edition details

• Publisher: Kluwer Academic Publishers
• Publication date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0792373596
• ISBN 13: 9780792373599
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 392
• Editor: Holler M.J., Owen Guillermo