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Focused power : experiments, the Shapley-Shubik power index, and focal points

Geller, Chris R.; Mustard, Jamie; Shahwan, Ranya - 2013

Experiments evaluate the fit of human behaviour to the Shapley-Shubik power index (SSPI), a formula of voter power. Groups of six subjects with differing votes divide a fixed purse by majority rule in online chat rooms. Earnings proxy for measured power. Chat rooms and processes for selecting...

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Chapter 29 Computational Methods and Models of Politics

Kollman, Ken; Page, Scott E. - In: Handbook of computational economics : volume 2, …, (pp. 1433-1463). 2006

, questions related to institutional design and performance, issues in international relations, and electoral competition. In our …

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Group contests with internal conflict and power asymmetry

Choi, Jay Pil; Chowdhury, Subhasish M.; Kim, Jaesoo - 2014

We investigate situations in which players make costly contributions as group members in a group conflict, and at the … asymmetry and complementarity in members'efforts, and analyze how each group's internal conflict in-fluences its chance of … winning in the external conflict. We find that a more symmetric group may expend more effort in external conflict when the …

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Divide and conquer : noisy communication in networks, power, and wealth distribution

Pérez Oviedo, Wilson - 2004

In a society composed of a ruler and its citizens: what are the determinants of the political equilibrium between these two? This paper approaches this problem as a game played between a ruler who has to decide the distribution of the aggregate income and a group of agents/citizens who have the...

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Constitutional Choice in Ancient Athens : The Rationality of Selection to Office by Lot

Tridimas, George - 2011

Contrary to modern democracies ancient Athens appointed large numbers of government officers by lot. After describing the Athenian arrangements, the paper reviews the literature on the choice between election and lot focusing on representativeness of the population, distributive justice,...

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Divide and Conquer: Noisy Communication in Networks, Power, and Wealth Distribution

Perez, Wilson - 2004

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Chapter 27 The Political Economy of Economic Sanctions

Kaempfer, William H.; Lowenberg, Anton D. - In: Handbook of defense economics : volume 2, Defense in a …, (pp. 867-911). 2007

International economic sanctions have become increasingly important as alternatives to military conflict since the end … success of sanctions depends on conflict expectations and levels of commitment. Many sanctions strategies end at the threat …

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Divide and conquer : noisy communication in networks, power, and wealth distribution

Pérez Oviedo, Wilson - 2004

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Democratization or Repression?

Acemoglu, Daron; Robinson, James Alan - 2003

Regimes controlled by a rich elite often collapse and make way for democracy amidst widespread social unrest. Such regime changes are often followed by redistribution to the poor at the expense of the former elite. We argue that the reason why the elite may have to resort to full-scale...

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Majority Rules and Coalitional Stability

Currarini, Sergio; Marini, Marco A. - 2013

The aim of this note is to discuss previously unnoticed stability properties of majoritarian decision making. We study collective decisions problems that can be described in terms of symmetric games satisfying various regularity conditions. We show that restricting the objecting power to...

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