Download or read book Essays on Bargaining and Voting Power written by Andreas Nohn and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Dynamic Models of Endogenous Political Power written by Jee Seon Jeon and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Consisting of three essays, this dissertation studies repeated bargaining games in which current bargaining outcomes determine players' future bargaining power. The first essay examines the combined effect of endogenous proposal and voting power by letting the players' recognition probability and voting weights evolve over time proportional to their share in the earlier bargaining outcome. The results emphasize the initial power distribution and players' farsightedness. I find that if all players are sufficiently farsighted, there is no transition from non-dictatorship to dictatorship. Unless the initial state is dictatorial, the political system reaches an oligarchic state where two players divide the power and resources equally, and the composition of this oligarchy does not change over time. The second essay studies a repeated bargaining game in which players' subsequent voting weights depend on the previous bargaining outcome with equal proposal power being guaranteed for all players every period. I show that when players mobilize present resources to gain greater voting power but do not control proposal rights, ultimate tyranny and ultimate oligarchy are the long-run outcomes. As in the first essay, players' farsightedness and initial distribution of resources and power determine which outcome prevails in the long run. The third essay investigates the effect of endogenous proposal power, keeping the principle of "one man, one vote''. I show that when players buy agenda-setting power using current resources but still cannot deny other players' voting rights, there emerges a permanent tyrant.
Download or read book Essays on Legislative Bargaining written by Nels Peter Christiansen and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 107 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This research uses theory and experiments to explore questions related to a legislature in which representatives with heterogeneous preferences divide a fixed budget between a public good and pork projects (local public goods). The dissertation is organized into two chapters. The first chapter examines the incentives of voters to vote strategically when selecting representatives for the legislature. It asks under what conditions strategic delegation, that is voting for a representative with different preferences from one's own, is optimal. Using the underlying bargaining model in Volden and Wiseman (2007), we show that voters have an incentive to strategically delegate to affect how the budget is divided at the legislative level. Contrary to the existing literature, the incentives for strategic delegation exist to direct more money to the public good and less to pork projects. In equilibrium there are at least as many representatives as districts that favor the public good. The paper also shows that the positive externalities associated with increased public goods contributions increase expected social welfare. An extension to the case of more than one representative per district is considered. The second chapter reports the results of a laboratory experiment designed to investigate hypotheses about the way spending on pork facilitates public good provision in a legislative bargaining environment when preferences are heterogeneous (Volden and Wiseman, 2007). Contrary to the model's predictions, players favoring the public good often need no pork to pass heavily funded public goods proposals even when these players are in the minority. However, when they include pork in a proposal, proposers use amounts that closely coincide with the theory. Proposers preferring pork also deviate from the model when in the majority and offer predominantly minimum-winning coalitions that fund only pork and no public goods. Fairness concerns, reciprocal voting, and reference points are shown to partially explain these results. Reference points often induce players to hold out for higher payoffs than can be justified by their continuation value for the game and change depending on the preferences of the proposer. One implication is that in a handful of instances this can actually initiate more spending on pork and less on the public good than predicted by the theory as the votes of players preferring pork are less costly to attain.
Download or read book Essays on Veto Bargaining Games written by Hankyoung Sung and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abstract: This dissertation discuss outcome of bargaining game in the presence of a veto player. The essays experimentally analyze the outcome of bargaining game in the presence of veto players. The first essay experimentally examines the veto power -- the right to unilaterally block decisions but without the ability to unilaterally secure their preferred outcome-in committee bargaining. I consider Winter (1996) for two cases: urgent committees where available total share is discounted by a half between stages i.e. discount factor, [delta] =.50, and non-urgent committees where available total share is discounted by 5% between stages i.e. [delta] =.95. Our experimental outcomes show an efficiency loss in some non-urgent cases and higher tendency to propose minimum winning coalitions by veto players, both of which are silent in the theory. I also identify substantial advantages in the share of veto players and proposers, qualitatively identical to the theory that veto power in conjunction with proposer power generates excessive power for the veto player. I relate our results to the theoretical literature on the impact of veto power as well as concerns about the impact of veto power in real-life committees. The second essay discusses the voting patterns of veto and control games in the first essay. This focuses on the following analyses. First, this examines the stochastic dominance in the empirical cumulative density functions of shares accepted among veto, non-veto, and control players. Second, the voting patterns of the three-type players are discussed in the random effect probit model. As a last, voting patterns using random effect probit model is discussed inside veto games in order to examine how the voters respond to proposals across different types of proposers.
Download or read book Essays on Political Economy written by Frédéric Bastiat and published by . This book was released on 1853 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Power Voting and Voting Power 30 Years After written by Manfred J Holler and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-03-19 with total page 752 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The developments over a thirty-year time span in the study of power, especially voting power, are traced in this book, which provides an up-to-date overview of applications of n-person game theory to the study of power in multimember bodies. Other theories that shed light on power distribution (e.g. aggregation theory) are treated as well. The book revisits the themes discussed in the well-known 1982 publication "Power, Voting and Voting Power" (edited by Manfred J. Holler). Thirty years later this essential topic has been taken up again and many of the authors from its predecessor participate here again in discussing the state-of-the-art, demonstrating the achievements of three decades of intensive research, and pointing the way to key issues for future work.
Download or read book Essay in Cooperative Games written by Gianfranco Gambarelli and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-06-05 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essays on Cooperative Games collates selected contributions on Cooperative Games. The papers cover both theoretical aspects (Coalition Formation, Values, Simple Games and Dynamic Games) and applied aspects (in Finance, Production, Transportation and Market Games). A contribution on Minimax Theorem (by Ken Binmore) and a brief history of early Game Theory (by Gianfranco Gambarelli and Guillermo Owen) are also enclosed.
Download or read book A Course on Cooperative Game Theory written by Satya R. Chakravarty and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-02-09 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Deals with real life situations where objectives of the participants are partially cooperative and partially conflicting"--
Download or read book 151 Essays for IAS PCS other Competitive Exams Including UPSC CSE Essay Papers written by Dr. B. Ramaswamy and published by Prabhat Prakashan. This book was released on 2023-03-23 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 151+ Essays for IAS/PCS & other Competitive Exams is a comprehensive collection of essays for the UPSC Mains exam as well as State pass and other competitive exams. This book is designed for the candidates, who is preparing for the Civil Services and other competitive examinations. Highlights of The Book This book consists 151+ Essays which helpful in Mains Examination for essay section. Essays are written on related issues such as Social Development, Economic, Political, Science and Technology, Ethical and Moral Issues, Bihar Related Issues, Philosophy and Religious Environmental, Women Empowerment, Contemporary and other Issues etc. The essays have been written in impressive style incorporating detailed information on the particular topic, ideas for contextual writing, rich vocabulary and analytical skills to arrive at a conclusion. These essays don’t have diversity but depth and book also helpful for those candidates who want quick revision.
Download or read book Voting Power and Procedures written by Rudolf Fara and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-07-22 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays honouring Dan Felsenthal and Moshé Machover reconsiders foundational aspects of the measurement of voting power. The specific case of voting power in two-tier systems - for instance the US system and the EU system - is analysed. Furthermore major power indices - Penrose, Banzhaf, Shapley-Shubik and others are revisited. The book proposes new voting procedures and studies well-known procedures and/or apportionment methods either from a technical or historical point of view.
Download or read book Luigi Einaudi Selected Political Essays written by Domenico da Empoli and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-02-18 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Luigi Einaudi (1874-1961) was a leading liberal Italian economist, economic historian and political figure: Governor of the Bank of Italy, Minister for the Budget and President of the Italian Republic. He was a prolific writer in all fields and his writings testify to his outstanding contribution to economics during his long career.
Download or read book The Referendum and Other Essays on Constitutional Politics written by Matt Qvortrup and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-05-02 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Until recently, referendums were little used. After the Scottish independence and Brexit referendums, they have come to the fore as a mechanism with the potential to disrupt the status quo and radically change political direction. This book looks at the historical development of the referendum, its use in different jurisdictions, and the types of constitutional questions it seeks to address. Written in an engaging style, the book offers a clear, objective overview of this important political and constitutional tool.
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Download or read book Bilateral Bargaining written by Stefan Napel and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book investigates bargaining between two agents. Its objective is to present, to extend, and to apply the present state of theoretical knowledge. A wide range of questions will be considered: First of all, will two parties reach efficient agreements? Traditional economic theory gives a generally affirma tive answer for perfectly rational agents, who can carry out complex calcu lations instantaneously and without cost. The book uses innovative methods to analyse the implications of less demanding assumptions. A practical ques tion related to bargaining is: How much power does the design of institutions such as the U. N. Security Council give to each of its members? Formally, non permanent members' votes are necessary to pass resolutions, but theoretical investigation of pre-voting negotiation attributes all power to the five perma nent members. Or one may ask whether a society should rather finance the education in higher mathematics for a talented person than remedial training for a retarded person? Different concepts of justice yield different answers. Which particular concept is implemented in a given society is also a matter of bargaining, and it is of special philosophical interest to investigate which bargain will be struck in an ideal society in which individual talents and resources are not yet known. Very generally, a bilateral bargaining situation is characterized by two agents - individuals, firms, governments, etc.
Download or read book An Essay on a Congress of Nations for the Adjustment of International Disputes Without Resort to Arms written by William Ladd and published by The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.. This book was released on 2007 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1840, this was the first important statement on the preservation of peace through international mediation published in the United States. Anticipating the creation of the Permanent Court of International Justice and the League of Nations by a good 75 years, Ladd proposed an international "congress with legislative powers" that worked with a court that enforced its laws and settled international disputes. It became a central text for American peace organizations and participants in international law conferences, and did much to persuade Americans to accept the idea of an international peace organization. It was also distributed widely in Europe, where it was well-received. Ladd [1778-1841], a scholar and philanthropist, was the president of the American Peace Society. His essay was a contribution to a collection published by his society entitled Prize Essays on a Congress of Nations, For the Adjustment of International Disputes, And for the Promotion of Universal Peace Without Resort to Arms (1840).
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