Power, Voting, and Voting Power
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1. Introduction -- An Introduction to the Analysis of Power, Voting, and Voting Power -- 2. The Idea of Power -- Power in Game Forms -- A Philosophical View of Power -- Power and Profit in Hierarchical Organizations -- Equivalent Concepts of Power in Voting Games -- Attribution and Social Power -- Power: An Amorphous Term — Diverse Conceptual Approaches -- 3. Formal Analysis of Representation and Voting Procedures -- Proportional Representation and Effective Number of Parties in Finland -- The Relationship Between Voting and Party Strength in an Electoral System -- Manipulation of the Agenda by Strategic Voting: Separable and Nonseparable Preferences -- Order-of-Voting Effects -- Strategic Voting in Multicandidate Elections under Uncertainty and under Risk -- Electoral Rules and Rational Voting: The Effects of Candidate Viability Perceptions on Voting Decisions -- 4. Concepts of Power Measurement -- The Problem of the Right Distribution of Voting Power -- An Axiomated Family of Power Indices for Simple n-Person Games -- Measuring Power in Voting Bodies: Linear Constraints, Spatial Analysis, and a Computer Program -- Modification of the Banzhaf-Coleman Index for Games with A Priori Unions -- Power and Satisfaction in an Ideologically Divided Voting Body -- Power in an Ideological Space -- Measuring Power -- 5. The Empirical Approach -- Party Power and Government Formation: A Case Study -- The Distribution of Power in Specific Decision-Making Bodies -- Political Geography and Political Power -- Regional Power Allocation: The Problem of British Devolution -- The Paradox of Redistribution: Some Theoretical and Empirical Results.